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Memorial  services,  J.  Wilbu] 
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FOREWORD. 

IT  was  early  on  Christmas  morning,  as  day- 
began  to  dawn,  that  God's  beloved  under- 
shepherd  and  evangelist  left  his  earthly  ten- 
ement and  entered  into  the  house  not  made  with 
hands.  His  body  was  brought  to  the  Manse  of 
the  Fourth  Presbyterian  Church,  where  he  had 
lived  and  wrought  so  wonderfully  in  the  last 
pastorate  he  held  before  entering  fully  into  evan- 
gelistic work,  and  there  the  beloved  face  was 
viewed  by  many  who  came  and  went  in  silent 
3^et  triumphant  grief.  Some  who  seemed  to  be 
strangers,  but  who  at  one  time  or  another  had 
been  touched  by  Dr.  Chapman's  winsome  minis- 
try, came  long  distances  to  pay  their  tribute  of 
love.  On  Sabbath  morning  a  great  congregation 
gathered  in  the  Fourth  Church,  where  a  simple 
and  tender  service  of  memorial  was  held — a  ser- 
vice that  was  characterized  throughout  with  the 
home  touch  of  those  who  deeply  loved  him.  Here 
was  his  home  and  here  he  had  gathered  his  flock 
about  him. 

Because  many  more  wished  to  pay  this  great 
man  their  tribute  than  could  be  accommodated 
in  a  single  service,  another  service  was  held  in 
the  afternoon  in  the  Fifth  Avenue  Presbyterian 
Church.  Here  also  a  large  congregation  assem- 
bled and  listened  with  profound  attention  to 
the  tributes  that  were  given  to  his  life  and  work. 
Late  in  the  afternoon  the  beloved  remains  were 
laid  to  rest  in  Woodlawn  Cemetery. 

The  measure  of  the  influence  of  such  a  life — 
who  can  calculate  it?  Death  does  not  obliterate 
it.     Thousands   upon  thousands   still   live   who 

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thank  God  for  Wilbur  Chapman,  and  the  sav- 
ing Gospel  that  he  preached  with  rare  beauty 
and  power.  Other  thousands  there  are  on  the 
other  side  who  must  have  given  him  a  joyful  wel- 
come to  the  Palace  of  the  King. 

To  have  known  him,  to  have  heard  him,  to 
have  loved  him — our  life  here  below  is  richer  for 
all  this.  Faith  is  dearer,  hope  is  clearer,  friend- 
ship is  sweater — Christ  Himself  is  more  pre- 
cious. The  shepherd  of  a  great  and  world-wide 
flock  has  himself  gone  into  the  fold,  and  the 
Good  Shepherd  Himself  has  bidden  him  be  for- 
ever at  home! 

Edgar  Whitaker  Work. 


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INVOCATION,  The  Reverend  Edgar 
Whitaker  Work,  D.D.,  Pastor  of  the 
Fourth  Presbyterian  Church,  New   York. 

O  God,  our  Heavenly  Father,  we  worship 
and  adore  Thee  in  Thy  Holy  House  on  Thy 
Holy  Day.  Accept  the  love  and  reverence  of 
our  hearts,  and  look  down  in  tender  mercy  upon 
us  to  reward  us  with  Thy  healing  Presence.  Be 
a  Father  to  us  all,  and  to  many  others  who  are 
like  us  in  our  sense  of  loss  and  sorrow. 

It  is  a  difficult  time  for  Thy  Church.  Our 
trust  is  in  Thee,  O  God.  Our  hope  is  in  Thee, 
O  Christ.  Our  comfort  comes  from  Thee,  O 
Holy  Spirit. 

Enable  us  to  hear  Thy  Holy  Word,  that  we 
may  be  deeply  consoled.  Let  the  riches  of  Thy 
Gospel  be  in  every  heart.  Let  the  rejoicings  of 
Thy  Word  lift  us  all  up  and  make  us  glad. 

Use  these  sacred  memorial  services,  O  God, 
for  Thine  own  glory,  and  for  the  spread  of  Thy 
Gospel,  and  the  increase  of  Thy  Kingdom.  Let 
Thy  glory  shine  today  in  Thy  house  upon  pulpit 
and  pews  and  people,  and  let  all  the  people 
exalt  Thy  Holy  Name.  And  this  we  pray  in 
the  name  of  our  adorable  Lord  and  Saviour,  who 
hath  taught  us  to  pray — saying: 

Our  Father,  who  art  in  heaven,  Hallowed  be 
Thy  Name.  Thy  Kingdom  come.  Thy  will  be 
done  on  earth  as  it  is  in  heaven.  Give  us  this 
day  our  daily  bread.  And  forgive  us  our  debts 
as  we  forgive  our  debtors.  And  lead  us  not 
into  temptation;  but  deliver  us  from  evil:  for 
Thine  is  the  Kingdom,  and  the  power,  and  the 
glory  forever.    Amen. 

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"WHEN  I  SURVEY  THE  WONDROUS 
CROSS"  ...         -        3Iiller 

Church  Chohi 

When  I  survey  the  wondrous  cross 

On  which  the  Prince  of  Glory  died, 

My  richest  gain  I  count  but  loss, 

And  pour  contempt  on  all  my  pride. 

Forbid  it,  Lord,  that  I  should  boast. 

Save  in  the  death  of  Christ  my  God; 

All  the  vain  things  that  charm  me  most, 
I  sacrifice  them  to  His  blood. 

See!  from  His  head.  His  hands.  His  feet, 
Sorrow  and  love  flow  mingled  down! 

Did  e'er  such  love  and  sorrow  meet. 

Or  thorns  compose  so  rich  a  crown? 

Were  the  whole  realm  of  nature  mine. 

That  were  an  offering  far  too  small; 
Love  so  amazing,  so  divine. 

Demands  my  soul,  my  life,  my  all. 

READING  OF  THE  SCRIPTURE      -      - 

The  Reverend  Edgar  Whitaker  Work^ 
D.D.,  Pastor  of  the  Fourth  Presbyterian 
Churchy  New  York. 

There  were  many  passages  of  the  Holy  Scrip- 
ture that  were  dear  to  Dr  Chapman.  He  loved 
the  121st  Psalm: 

"I  will  lift  up  mine  eyes  unto  the  hills,  from 
whence  cometh  my  help.  My  help  cometh  from 
the  Lord,  which  made  heaven  and  earth. 

Pie  will  not  suifer  thy  foot  to  be  moved:  He 
that  keepeth  thee  will  not  slumber. 

Behold  He  that  keepeth  Israel  shall  never 
slumber  nor  sleep. 

The  Lord  is  thy  keeper;  the  I^ord  is  thy  shade 
upon  thy  right  hand. 

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The  sun  shall  not  smite  thee  by  day,  nor  the 
moon  by  ni^ht. 

The  Lord  shall  preserve  thee  from  all  evil ;  he 
shall  preserve  thy  soul. 

The  Lord  shall  preserve  thy  going  out  and 
thy  coming  in  from  this  time  forth  and  even  for- 
ever more." 

Like  all  of  us,  he  loved  the  Shepherd  Psalm. 
We  remember  how  often  he  asked  his  congrega- 
tion to  repeat  it  from  memory. 

"The  Lord  is  my  shepherd; 

I  shall  not  want. 

He  maketh  me  to  lie  down  in  green  pastures; 

He  leadeth  me  beside  still  waters. 

He  restoreth  my  soul : 

He  guideth  me  in  the  paths  of  righteousness 
for  His  Name's  sake. 

Yea,  though  I  walk  through  the  Valley  of  the 
shadow  of  death 

I  will  fear  no  evil ;  for  Thou  art  with  me. 

Thy  rod  and  Thy  staff,  they  comfort  me. 

Thou  preparest  a  table  before  me  in  the  pres- 
ence of  mine  enemies ; 

Thou  hast  anointed  my  head  with  oil ; 

My  cup  runneth  over. 

Surely  goodness  and  loving  kindness  shall  fol- 
low me  all  the  days  of  my  life; 

And  I  shall  dwell  in  the  house  of  the  Lord 
forever." 

One  can  imagine  with  what  emphasis  and 
with  what  feeling  he  himself  might  have  read 
these  words: 

"Behold,  I  show  you  a  mystery;  we  shall  not 
all  sleep  but  we  shall  all  be  changed. 

In  a  moment,  in  the  twinkling  of  an  eye,  at 

the  last  trump,  for  the  trumpet  shall  sound;  and 

the  dead  shall  be  raised  incorruptible,  and  we 

shall  be  changed. 

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For  this  corruptible  must  put  on  incorrup- 
tion,  and  this  mortal  must  put  on  immortality. 

So  when  this  corruptible  shall  have  put  on  in- 
corruption,  and  this  mortal  shall  have  put  on  im- 
mortality, then  shall  be  brought  to  pass  the  say- 
ing that  is  written,  death  is  swallowed  up  in  vic- 
tory. 

Oh  death,  where  is  thy  sting?  Oh  grave, 
where  is  thy  victory? 

The  sting  of  death  is  sin;  and  the  strength  of 
sin  is  the  law. 

But  thanks  be  to  God,  which  giveth  us  the  vic- 
tory, through  our  Lord,  Jesus  Christ. 

Therefore,  my  beloved  brethren,  be  ye  stead- 
fast, unmovable,  always  abounding  in  the  work 
of  the  Lord,  for  as  much  as  ye  know  that  your 
labour  is  not  in  vain  in  the  Lord." 

Very  recently.  Dr.  Chapman  has  had  his 
thoughts  centered  a  great  deal  upon  the  words 
to  be  found  in  Paul's  Epistle  to  the  Philippians, 
and  he  has  been  speaking  about  them  often  in 
recent  addresses: 

"What  things  were  gain  to  me,  those  I  counted 
loss  for  Christ. 

Yea,  doubtless,  and  I  count  all  things  but  loss 
for  the  excellency  of  the  knowledge  of  Christ 
Jesus,  my  Lord:  for  whom  I  have  suffered  the 
loss  of  all  things,  and  do  count  them  but  dung, 
that  I  may  win  Christ, 

And  be  found  in  Him,  not  having  mine  own 
righteousness,  which  is  of  the  law,  but  that  which 
is  through  the  faith  of  Christ,  the  righteousness 
which  is  of  God  by  faith : 

That  I  may  know  Him,  and  the  power  of 
His  resurrection,  and  the  fellowship  of  His  suf- 
ferings, being  made  conformable  unto  his  death; 

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If  by  any  means  I  mi^ht  attain  unto  the  resur- 
rection of  the  dead." 

And  whenever  he  spoke  of  this  last  verse,  he 
called  attention  to  its  actual  meaning,  and 
quoted  the  literal  translation — "If  by  any  means 
I  might  attain  unto  the  out  resurrection  of  the 
dead,  the  resurrection  out  from  among  the 
dead." 

I  remember  hearing  Dr.  Chapman  say  in  a 
sermon  one  time,  when  he  was  speaking  about  the 
Fourteenth  Chapter  of  John's  Gospel,  that  he 
knew  of  a  blind  girl,  to  whom  the  Bible  had  been 
given;  and  when  she  opened  to  this  chapter  and 
put  her  fingers  upon  the  raised  letters,  not  know- 
ing what  book  it  was,  she  said,  "Oh,  that's  the 
Bible!": 

"Let  not  your  heart  be  troubled;  ye  believe  in 
God,  believe  also  in  me. 

In  my  Father's  house  are  many  mansions ;  if  it 
were  not  so,  I  would  have  told  you.  I  go  to  pre- 
pare a  place  for  you. 

And  if  I  go  and  prepare  a  place  for  you,  I 
will  come  again,  and  receive  you  unto  myself; 
that  where  I  am,  there  ye  may  be  also." 

Most  of  all,  it  seems  to  me,  I  imagine  that  I 
hear  his  own  voice  as  he  might  have  read  these 
words : 

"And  he  showed  me  a  pure  river  of  water  of 
life,  clear  as  crystal,  proceeding  out  of  the  throne 
of  God  and  of  the  Lamb. 

In  the  midst  of  the  street  of  it  and  on  either  side 
of  the  river,  was  there  the  tree  of  life  which  bare 
twelve  manner  of  fruits,  and  yielded  her  fruits 
every  month ;  and  the  leaves  of  the  tree  were  for 
the  healing  of  the  nations. 

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And  there  shall  be  no  more  curse;  but  the 
throne  of  God  and  of  the  Lamb  shall  be  in  it,  and 
His  servants  shall  serve  Him. 

And  they  shall  see  His  face;  and  His  name 
shall  be  in  their  foreheads. 

And  there  shall  be  no  nig-ht  there,  and  they 
need  no  candle,  neither  liffht  of  the  sun;  for  the 
Lord  God  giveth  them  light,  and  they  shall  reign 
forever  and  ever. 

And  he  said  unto  me.  These  sayin^^s  are  faith- 
ful and  true;  and  the  Lord  God  of  the  holy 
prophets  sent  His  ang-els  to  show  unto  His  ser- 
vants the  things  which  must  shortly  be  done. 

Behold,  I  come  quickly ;  blessed  is  he  that  keep- 
eth  the  sayings  of  the  prophecy  of  this  book." 


PRAYER        

The  Reverend  Aquilla  Webb^  D.D.,  Pas- 
tor of  the  Central  North  Broad  Street  Pres- 
byterian Church,  Philadelphia. 

O,  Lord  God,  our  Heavenly  Father,  we  thank 
Thee  that  Thou  didst  give  this  servant  to  us.  We 
thank  Thee  for  the  memory  of  the  mother,  though 
we  did  not  meet  her,  yet  from  his  lips  we  knew 
her;  for  her  loving  care  over  him.  We  thank 
Thee  for  the  institutions,  the  college  and  the  sem- 
inary, and  for  the  influence  there  upon  his  life. 
We  thank  Thee,  O  God,  for  his  call  to  the  minis- 
try, for  the  church's  recognizing  his  ability  and 
giving  him  the  opportunity  to  preach  the  un- 
searchable riches  of  Christ.  We  thank  Thee  too, 
O  God,  for  the  great  captain  of  industry  who  was 
his  friend  and  who  gave  him  such  an  opportun- 
ity for  evangelistic  endeavor  and  who  awaited 
him  in  triumph  on  the  farther  shore. 

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We  rejoice  over  the  many  sermons  our 
brother  was  enabled  to  preach  and  those  we 
heard.  We  thank  Thee  for  those  he  has  caused 
to  be  printed.  And  we  pray  that  none  of  his 
words  shall  fall  to  the  srround.  We  bless  Thee 
for  all  the  souls  he  was  enabled  to  win  to  Thee, 
a  vast  multitude  throughout  the  world.  For  his 
wonderful  ministry,  we  srive  Thee  thanks  and 
praise. 

We  pray  for  those  who  listened  to  the  Word 
and  may  not  have  accepted  it  at  the  time.  In 
these  days  may  they  hear  with  an  added  em- 
phasis the  call  of  this  miffhty  man  to  come  over 
on  the  Lord's  side. 

We  rejoice  over  the  many  things  he  accom- 
plished in  his  life.  We  rejoice  over  the  oppor- 
tunity that  our  great  church  gave  him  in  the 
closing  days  of  his  life,  when  in  the  fullness  of 
his  strength  and  power,  he  was  enabled  to  go  over 
the  country  he  loved,  and  not  only  minister  to 
our  denomination,  but  to  all  denominations. 
We  rejoice  over  the  many  messages  he  was  able 
to  deliver  to  the  ministers,  and  for  the  strength 
attained  from  them.  But  wherever  he  went,  we 
rejoice  to  think  not  of  him  as  so  much  a  great 
preacher  or  a  great  evangelist,  but  as  our  friend, 
our  brother.  And  we  rejoice,  too,  in  the  great- 
ness of  his  life,  orderly,  systematic,  harmonious 
and  blended,  so  that  his  was  not  the  greatness  of 
the  meteor  that  flashes  out  upon  the  darkness 
only  long  enough  to  reveal  the  gloom  and  obliv- 
ion into  which  it  rushes,  but  his  was  like  the  great- 
ness of  the  sun  that   shines  on  forever. 

We  pray  that  we  may,  in  this,  find  our  com- 
fort and  our  consolation;  for,  in  all  this  great- 
ness, he  was  so  wonderful  because  he  touched 
our  lives  at  so  many  points,  and  walked  with  us 

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in  such  familiar  fellowship,  and  had  so  much  in 
common  with  us. 

O  Lord,  we  have  tried  to  pray  but  we  feel 
this  is  the  time  to  sit  still  and  listen  to  Thee.  O 
God,  speak  to  us.  It  would  be  asking  much  to 
have  a  double  portion  of  his  spirit  fall  upon  us, 
but  in  these  troubled  times,  we  feel  we  need  just 
that  grace  and  blessing  from  Thy  hands.  To 
take  up  the  work  that  he  has  laid  down  in  the 
fullness  of  his  power,  give  us  a  double  portion 
today,  O  God,  of  his  spirit. 

And  now,  our  Father,  we  pray  for  Thy  bless- 
ing to  be  upon  his  family  and  upon  his  loved 
ones,  upon  his  wife  and  his  children  and  his 
grandchildren.  O,  put  Thy  loving  arms  about 
them  and  care  for  them.  What  a  wonderful  her- 
itage and  blessing  is  theirs !  This  is  not  a  time  of 
defeat ;  it  is  a  time  of  great  triumph.  And  while 
we  weep,  yet  we  rejoice,  rejoice  with  them  over 
the  goodness  and  greatness  and  the  work  of  this 
mighty  man  who  has  fallen  asleep  in  Christ 
Jesus.  And  we  pray  for  Thy  blessing  upon  those 
who  shall  bring  to  us  a  message  this  morning, 
men  who  were  close  to  him,  who  were  his  friends, 
because  it  was  his  friendship  that  made  us 
friends,  and  brought  us  together. 

Be  with  us  now  and  keep  us  and  help  us  to 
do  Thy  holy  way;  and  if  it  be  possible,  may  we 
be  gathered  unto  our  fathers  in  the  fullness  of 
our  strength  also  when  our  eye  is  undimmed  and 
our  natural  strength  is  not  abated. 

We  ask  it  in  Christ's  Name.    Amen. 


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''ONE  DAY"        -        Words  by  Dr.  Chapman 
Mr.  Albert  Brown. 

One  day  when  heaven  was  filled  with  His  praises, 
One  day  when  sin  was  as  black  as  could  be, 

Jesus  came  forth  to  be  born  of  a  virgin — 
Dwelt  amongst  men,  my  example  is  He! 

Chorus  : 

Living,  He  loved  me;  dying,  He  saved  me; 

Buried,  He  carried  my  sins  far  away; 
Rising,  He  justified  freely  for  ever: 

One  day  He's  coming — O  glorious  day. 

One  day  they  led  Him  up  Calvary's  mountain. 
One  day  they  nailed  Him  to  die  on  the  tree; 

Suffering  anguish,  despised  and  rejected: 
Bearing  our  sins,  my  Redeemer  is  He! 

One  day  they  left  Him  alone  in  the  garden. 
One  day  He  rested  from  suffering  free; 

Angels  came  down  o'er  His  tomb  to  keep  vigil; 
Hope  of  the  hopeless,  my  Saviour  is  he ! 

One   day    the   grave    could    conceal    Him    no    longer, 
One  day  the  stone  rolled  away  from  the  door; 

Then  He  arose,  over  death  He  had  conquered; 
Now  is  ascended,  my  Lord  evermore! 

One  day  the  trumpet  will  sound  for  His  coming. 
One  day  the  skies  with  His  glory  will  shine; 

Wonderful  day,  my  beloved  ones  bringing; 
Glorious  Saviour,  this  Jesus  is  mine! 


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The  Rev.  Edgar  Whitaker  Work,  D.D.  : 

All  over  this  country,  in  the  churches  and  the 
pulpits,  thanksgiving  is  being  offered  to  God  for 
this  friend  of  ours  and  for  the  ministry  which 
he  was  permitted  to  exercise  in  the  world.  In 
some  places,  services  of  memorial  like  this  are 
being  held  today.  For  instance,  in  far-away  San 
Diego  on  the  Pacific  Coast,  services  of  memorial 
are  being  held,  and  others  will  yet  be  held  in 
many  places  in  this  land,  and  doubtless  in  other 
lands  as  well. 

A  great  number  of  telegrams  and  letters  have 
been  received  from  every  direction.  I  wish  it  were 
possible  to  read  them  all  to  you.  There  are  three, 
however,  which  certainly  should  be  heard  by  the 
congregation  today.  The  first  is  a  beautiful 
letter  from  the  Vice-President  of  the  United 
States,  the  Honorable  Thomas  R.  Marshall, 
addressed  to  Dr.  John  F.  Carson  of  Brooklyn: 

From  the  Vice-President's  Chamber, 

Washington. 
"Dear  Doctor: 

"If  duty  ever  called  me  to  pay  my  personal 
respects  at  the  funeral  services  of  a  gi*eat  and 
good  man,  it  surely  calls  me  to  come  to  Dr. 
Chapman's  funeral.  And  yet,  I  cannot  come 
because  my  duty  is  to  the  living  at  home  who 
need  me. 

"I  do  not  seek  to  explain  the  passing  of  this 
personal  friend,  this  illustrious  Presbj^terian,  this 
great  Christian,  this  high-minded  patriot.  Had 
the  war  never  come  on,  still  Dr.  Chapman  would 
have  lived  in  the  hearts  of  those  who  loved  him, 
but  its  coming  brought  immortality  to  him  m  the 
life  of  the  nation.  Early,  he  saw  that  the  fight 
was  between  Bethlehem  and  Berlin,  and  then  he 

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wielded  the  flamin,^  sword  of  righteousness  with 
such  valor  as  to  put  behind  him  and  back  of  his 
country  the  great  denomination  he  so  worthily- 
honored  and  which  has  so  signally  honored  him. 

"In  Church  and  State,  he  measured  up  to 
model  citizenship. 

"Until  we  meet  again,  rest  to  his  ashes  and 
peace  to  his  soul! 

"Regardfully, 
(Signed)  "Thomas  R.  Marshall." 

A  telegram  has  been  received  from  the  Mod- 
erator of  the  Presbyterian  Church  of  the  United 
States  of  America,  Rev.  J.  Frank  Smith. 

"Your  loss  I  count  my  loss,  and  the  church's 
loss,  the  world's  loss.  Dr.  Chapman  was  under- 
stood and  loved  by  the  multitude  who  heard  him 
gladly.  It  will  be  difficult  to  fill  his  place  in  the 
evangelistic  world.  God  bless  you  all  and  heal 
the  hurt  of  the  heart." 

A  third  telegram,  which  I  take  the  time  to 
read,  has  come  from  the  Rev.  William  A.  Sun- 
day, the  evangelist : 

"Words  fail  to  express  my  sorrow.  I  am 
grieved  that  I  cannot  be  present.  The  Doctor 
was  my  truest  friend.  Next  to  the  members  of 
my  own  family,  I  loved  him  more  than  any  one 
else.  He  started  me  in  my  life's  work  and  encour- 
aged me  when  the  battle  w^as  hard.  His  love 
was  like  a  mother's  love.  I  wish  I  could  have 
seen  the  welcome  the  angels  gave  him  when  he 
burst  through  the  gates  into  the  City.  The  mem- 
ory of  all  this  will  be  an  inspiration  until  my  time 
comes  to  drift  out  with  the  tide.  God  bless  you 
all." 

It  was  characteristic  of  our  friend  that  he  said 
that  when  it  was  God's  will  to  call  him  home,  he 

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would  desire  that  his  intimate  personal  friend 
should  speak  upon  the  occasion  of  any  service 
that  might  be  held  in  his  memory — Rev.  Ford  C. 
Ottman.  All  of  us  know  how  difficult  it  is  for 
a  friend,  an  intimate  friend,  to  pray  or  to  speak 
upon  an  occasion  like  this;  and  we  assure  Dr. 
Ottman  that  we  shall  hold  him  in  our  hearts  in 
prayer  as  he  speaks  out  of  his  own  heart. 

ADDRESS        

The  Re\^rend  Ford  C.  Ottman,  D.D., 
Executive  Secretary  of  the  National  Service 
Commission. 

Faithful  unto  death  and  after  that  the  crown 
of  life. 

Feeding  the  flock  of  God  and  after  that  the 
crown  of  glory. 

Winning  souls  for  Christ  and  after  that  the 
crown  of  rejoicing. 

Loving  the  Lord's  appearing  and  after  that 
the  crown  of  righteousness. 

These  four  crowns,  wrought  into  a  form  of 
beauteous  super-excellence,  make  up  the  diadem 
that  now  encircles  the  brow  of  him  in  whose 
memory  we  are  here  assembled. 

Faithful  unto  death  and  after  that  the  crown 
of  life.  A  death,  not  like  that  of  Stephen  or  of 
Paul  or  of  John,  a  martyr  to  conviction;  but, 
rather,  like  the  ebb  and  flow  of  the  tide,  drawn 
again  and  again  to  the  border  line  of  death,  only 
to  return  to  the  ministry  of  life,  until  the  last 
great  ebbing  tide,  "too  full  for  sound  or  foam, 
when  that  which  drew  from  out  the  boundless 
deep  turned  again  home." 

For  us,  indeed,  it  was  "twilight  and  evening 

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bell,  and  after  that  the  dark."  For  him,  we 
know  there  was  "no  sadness  of  farewell"  when 
he  embarked.  For  though  from  out  the  bourne 
of  time  and  place  the  floods  had  borne  him  far, 
we  know  he  met  his  Pilot  face  to  face  when  he 
had  crossed  the  bar. 

Faithful  unto  death  and  after  that  the  crown 
of  life. 

Feeding  the  flock  of  God  and  after  that  the 
crown  of  glory.  Leading  the  sheep  entrusted  to 
him  into  the  green  pastures  and  beside  the  still 
waters  where  he  had  learned  to  say  or  sing: 
The  Lord's  my  shepherd, 

I'll  not  want. 
He  makes  me  down  to  lie 

In  pastures  green.     He  leadeth  me 
The  quiet  waters  by. 

Into  these  green  pastures  and  beside  these  still 
waters  where  he  had  so  often  found  rest  and 
refreshment  for  his  own  soul,  there  he  led  others, 
to  be  held  in  loving  remembrance  by  them,  and 
to  be  crowned,  when  the  chief  Shepherd  shall  ap- 
pear, with  a  crown  of  glory  that  fadeth  not  away. 
In  the  beautiful  language  of  Scripture,  an 
amaranthine  or  an  ever  blooming  crown. 

Feeding  the  flock  of  God  and  after  that  the 
crown  of  glory. 

Winning  souls  for  Christ  and  after  that  the 
crown  of  rejoicingi  Paul,  writing  to  his  Philip- 
pian  converts,  calls  them  his  "crown."  His  Thes- 
salonian  converts  he  speaks  of  as  his  "crown  of 
rejoicing."  They,  when  standing  with  him  in 
the  presence  of  the  Lord,  would  be  the  cause  of 
his  rejoicing. 

Andrew  first  found  his  own  brother  Peter  and 
brought  hun  to  Jesus;  and  Peter's  pentecost 
fashioned  the  jewels  that  were  to  be  set  in  An- 
drew's crown. 

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Think  of  the  multitudes  converted  to  the  Lord 
Jesus  Christ,  multitudes  finding  their  way  into 
eternal  life  through  the  ministry  of  him  whose 
dear  name  we  honor!  Sowing  in  all  lands  and 
beside  all  waters.  Sowing,  that  in  eternity  he 
might  gather  the  abundant  sheaves  for  the 
song  of  the  harvest  home.  Evangelizing  from 
Plymouth  Rock  to  the  Golden  Gate;  from  the 
Dominion  of  Canada  to  the  Southern  gulf;  in 
the  Hawaiian  Islands;  in  the  Fiji;  under  the 
glory  of  the  Southern  Cross,  in  that  vast  conti- 
nent with  its  great  cities  of  Brisbane  and  Sydney 
and  Melbourne  and  Adelaide,  and  Ballarat  and 
Bendigo,  finding  at  Bendigo  gold  more  precious 
than  ever  came  from  its  far-famed  mines ;  on  the 
shore  of  the  Thursday  Island;  beside  JNIanila 
Bay;  in  Hong  Kong  and  Canton  and  Shanghai, 
and  up  the  Yangtse,  and  in  Peking,  and  at  Tien- 
tsin; in  Korea  and  in  Japan,  where,  after  rest- 
ing awhile  in  that  fair  land's  autumnal  splendor, 
the  beauteous  witness  of  ingathering  harvests, 
the  wonderful  meetings  in  Yokohoma.  Then 
across  the  Pacific,  and  across  the  Continent,  and 
across  the  Atlantic;  in  England,  in  Scotland,  in 
Wales  and  in  Ireland.  Far  and  wide,  in  all 
lands,  and  beside  all  waters.  What  indeed  shall 
be  the  answer  to  the  question,  "What  shall  the 
harvest  be?"  A  crown  of  rejoicing  shall  be  his 
when,  in  the  great  multitude  of  the  redeemed, 
standing  upon  the  plains  of  glory,  he  shall  look 
upon  the  faces  of  those  who  by  his  ministry  had 
been  led  to  Jesus  that  they  might  wash  their 
robes  and  make  them  white  in  the  blood  of  the 
Lamb. 

Winning  souls  for  Christ  and  after  that  the 
crown  of  righteousness. 

Paul    fought   a   good   fight,   he   finished   his 

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course,  he  kept  the  faith.  He  knew  that  there 
was  laid  up  for  him  a  crown  of  righteousness 
which  the  Lord,  the  righteous  judge,  would 
give  to  him  in  that  day ;  and  not  to  him  only,  but 
to  them  also  that  loved  his  appearing. 

This  blessed  hope,  inter-related  to,  and  the 
foundation  of,  all  other,  fills  the  pages  of  Scrip- 
ture with  its  ineffable  glory.  It  reveals  the  glori- 
ous consummation  when  the  disordered  rule  of 
man  shall  be  over  and  the  Sun  of  Righteousness 
shall  rise  with  healing  in  his  wings.  No  wonder 
that  our  dear  friend  repeated  over  and  over 
again,  both  in  his  public  speaking  and  his  pri- 
vate conversation,  that  such  a  blessed  hope  was 
the  inspiration  of  his  ministry. 

In  all  the  hymns  of  the  heart  written  by  him 
you  hear  the  same  inspiring  note.  His  associates, 
Mr.  Alexander  and  Mr.  Brown,  have  borne  wit- 
ness to  this  in  the  song  of  their  selection  for  this 
solemn  service: 

Living  he  loved  me,  dying  he  saved  me, 
Buried  he  carried  my  sins  far  away. 

Rising  he  justified  freely  forever. 

One  day  He's  coming.  Oh  glorious  day! 

Among  our  precious  and  indestructible  mem- 
ories of  him  there  will  abide  the  truth  that,  in  the 
early  morning,  before  the  daybreak,  when  the 
morning  star  in  its  luminous  beauty  was  filling 
the  face  of  the  sky,  he  heard  and  answered  the 
Master's  call. 

Safe  in  the  glory  for  evermore ;  while  his  body, 
waiting  for  its  redemption,  sleeps. 

Asleep  in  Jesus,  blessed  sleep. 
From  which  none  ever  wakes  to  weep; 
A  calm  and  undisturbed  repose, 
Unbroken  by  the  last  of  foes. 

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Asleep  in   Jesus,    far   from   thee, 
Thy  kindred  and  thy  friends  may  be, 
But  thine  is  still  a  blessed  sleep, 
From  which  none  ever  wakes  to  weep. 

By  a  special  revelation  from  the  Lord  the 
Apostle  Paul  has  reassured  our  hearts  concern- 
ing' them  that  are  asleep.  He  writes  in  order 
that  we  may  not  be  ignorant  concerning  them, 
lest  we  should  sorrow  even  as  others  which  have 
no  hope.  "If  we  believe" — so  he  writes — "that 
Jesus  died  and  rose  again" — and  we  do  so  be- 
lieve— then,  "even  so  them  also  which  sleep  in 
Jesus  will  God  bring  with  him.  The  Lord  shall 
descend,  the  dead  in  Christ  shall  rise,  then  we 
which  are  alive  and  remain  shall  be  caught  up  to- 
gether with  them  in  the  clouds  to  meet  the  Lord 
in  the  air,  and  so  shall  we  ever  be  with  the  Lord." 
"Wherefore" — says  the  Apostle — "comfort  one 
another  with  these  words." 

Dear  friend,  we  long  to  hear  the  voice  now 
stilled.  Thine  eyes  are  sealed,  and  thou  canst 
not  see  the  throng  that  has  come  to  mourn  thy 
loss.  Thine  ears  are  closed,  and  thou  canst  not 
hear  the  faltering  words  of  thy  lifelong  friend. 
But  thy  pain  is  past.  God  gave  to  thee  on  Christ- 
mas morning  the  gift  of  gifts  in  calling  thee  into 
the  presence  of  thy  I^ord. 

Farewell,  dear  friend.  Thou  hast  been  faith- 
ful unto  death.  Thou  shalt  receive  the  crown  of 
life. 

Thou  didst  feed  the  flock  of  God.  Thou  shalt 
wear  the  crown  of  glory. 

Thou  hast  brought  many  to  Christ;  they  shall 
be  thy  crown  of  rejoicing. 

Thou  didst  love  His  appearing,  and  when  He 
shall  be  manifested,  thou  also  shalt  be  manifested, 

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wearing  thy  crown  of  righteousness.     He  shall 
reign  and  thou  too  shalt  reign  with  Him. 

Until  the  morning  break  and  the  shadows  flee, 
farewell ! 


The  Rev.  Edgak  Whitaker  Work,  D.D.: 

These  services  are  held  in  the  church  and  in 
the  pulpit  which  were  the  scene  of  the  last 
pastorate  of  Dr.  Chapman  before  he  entered 
upon  the  wider  work  to  which  he  was  called 
as  an  evangelist.  It  is  an  intimate  and  per- 
sonal service,  and  it  is  for  this  reason  in 
the  highest  way  appropriate  that  some  word 
should  be  spoken  by  his  close  friend  and  brother, 
the  Reverend  Doctor  Marcus  A.  Brownson  of 
Philadelphia. 


ADDRESS 


The  Re\^rend  Marcus  A.  Brownson, 
D.D.,  Pastor  of  the  Tenth  Presbyterian 
Church,  Philadelphia. 

"Hearts  are  linked  to  hearts  by  God.  The 
friend  on  whose  fidelity  you  can  count,  whose 
success  in  life  flushes  your  cheek  with  honest  sat- 
isfaction, whose  triumphant  career  you  have 
traced  and  read  with  a  heart  throbbing  almost  as 
if  it  were  a  thing  alive,  for  whose  honor  you 
would  answer  as  for  your  own, — that  friend, 
given  to  you  by  circumstances  over  which  you 
have  no  control,  was  God's  own  gift."  So  wrote 
Robertson  of  Brighton,  the  great  preacher  of  the 
Church  of  England. 

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Something  of  this  feeling  possesses  many  of  us 
here  today,  as  we  think  lovingly  of  him  whose 
going  from  us  we  do  sincerely  mourn. 

God  gave  me  such  a  friend  in  Wilbur  Chap- 
man, twenty-five  years  ago. 

In  the  late  autumn  of  1893, 1  first  met  him.  I 
was  then  a  pastor  in  the  Citj''  of  Detroit,  and  he 
had  come  to  the  city  to  conduct  an  evangelistic 
mission.  Being  the  secretary  of  the  Committee 
of  Pastors,  it  was  my  advantage  to  be  brought 
into  intimate  relationship  with  him,  and  to  enter 
into  his  eager  plans  to  win  for  Christ  a  multitude, 
redeemed  by  saving  grace. 

I  shall  never  forget  the  thrill  with  which  I  lis- 
tened to  his  first  sermon.  The  charm  of  his  man- 
ner, the  sweetness  of  his  voice,  the  fervor  of  his 
speech,  the  moving  power  of  the  vital  Gospel,  as 
he  preached  it,  took  such  hold  of  my  heart  that 
I,  instinctively  and  enthusiastically,  joined  in  the 
exclamation  of  another;  "That  man  held  me 
spellbound.  There  is  nothing  that  I  would  not 
do  for  him  to  help  him  in  this  work."  It  was  my 
privilege  to  go  with  him  to  every  meeting,  and  to 
hear  him  preach  ninety-one  times,  always  with 
the  same  emotion,  giving  devout  thanks  to  God 
for  sending  to  us  such  a  messenger  of  grace. 
And  when  the  fruits  of  that  mission  were  gath- 
ered in,  a  great  harvest  of  souls  won  for  Christ, 
my  heart  rejoiced  with  him  in  the  signal  tokens 
of  God's  favor  on  this  ministry  which  had  moved 
that  city  from  center  to  circumference,  and  is 
still  productive  in  the  consecrated  lives  of  leading 
Christian  men  and  women,  brought  to  the  feet  of 
Jesus  in  those  memorable  days.  The  spiritual 
glory  of  that  evangelistic  mission  was  far  ex- 
ceeded by  his  subsequent  missions,  elsewhere  held, 
in  which  thousands  upon  thousands   confessed 

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their  sins  and  turned  to  the  Saviour  of  men;  but 
it  remains  in  my  memory  as  an  outstanding  in- 
stance of  the  power  of  the  Holy  Spirit,  working 
through  the  preaching  of  Dr.  Chapman.  The 
learned  listened  to  him  with  responsive  hearts. 
"The  common  people  heard  him  gladly." 

From  that  time  onward,  it  was  my  rare  privi- 
lege to  be  intimately  associated  with  him,  first  as 
a  friend,  then  in  a  double  sense  as  a  brother,  of- 
ten in  the  work  of  our  Presbyterian  Church,  al- 
ways in  the  relation  of  a  close  confidant.  I  wept 
with  him  in  his  sorrows.  I  rejoiced  with  him  in 
his  triumphs.  I  shared  many  of  the  glad  days  of 
his  life.  I  awaited,  with  eagerness,  his  letters  re- 
citing his  stories  of  the  outpoured  blessings  of 
the  Lord  upon  his  evangelistic  labors,  and  those 
of  his  associates,  in  different  parts  of  our  own 
country  and  in  different  countries  of  the  world, 
and  poured  out  my  heart  in  prayer  for  Divine 
favor  upon  his  untiring  efforts  to  call  men  to 
Christ,  and  gave  thanks  to  the  God  of  all  grace 
for  what  He  wrought  through  the  labors  of  His 
servant. 

So  much  personal  blessing  came  to  me  in  the 
way  of  encouragement  in  my  own  ministry,  and 
so  much  pleasure  in  my  own  life,  from  his  fellow- 
ship, that  to  speak  of  him  at  all,  although  diffi- 
cult and  delicate,  I  must  needs,  to  this  extent  at 
least,  uncover  my  inner  self,  in  telling  of  a  friend- 
ship which  was  marked  by  no  misunderstanding 
or  by  no  single  regrettable  word  spoken  between 
us,  and  which  has  been  one  of  the  chief  treasures 
of  my  life. 

I  felt  honored  in  the  honors  which  came  to 
him.  As  Emerson  puts  it:  "I  must  feel  pride  in 
my  friend's  accomplishments  as  if  they  were 
mine — a  wild,  delicate,  throbbing  property  in  his 
virtues." 

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Now,  I  rejoice  supremely,  as  do  we  all,  in  "the 
glory,  honor  and  immortality"  into  which  he  has 
entered.  "They  that  turn  many  to  righteousness 
shall  shine  as  the  stars  forever  and  ever." 

I  am  not  in  a  mood  of  mind  permissive  of  ana- 
lysis to  trace  the  source  and  secret  of  the  power 
which  marked  his  far-reaching  and  productive 
ministry.  Nor  is  it  my  purpose  to  study  and 
state  the  elements  of  his  character.  My  mental 
mood  is  synthetic.  I  would  let  flow  together  the 
spontaneous  impressions  of  my  heart,  as  I 
attempt  to  pay  a  loving  tribute  to  his  memory, 
in  this  simple  utterance  of  gratitude. 

It  is  his  great  heart  of  love  which  I  cherish — 
his  love  for  the  Word  of  God  which  kept  him 
true  to  its  teachings ;  his  love  of  sinful  men  which 
impelled  him  to  speak  to  them  with  a  tenderness 
and  a  fervor  and  a  convincing  power  which  won 
their  souls  for  Christ;  his  love  for  the  ministry 
into  which  God  called  him,  and  for  his  brothers 
in  this  holy  calling;  his  love  for  his  friends  and 
his  dear  ones ;  above  all,  his  love  for  our  Lord  and 
Saviour,  Jesus  Christ,  to  whom  he  gave  "the 
last  full  measure  of  devotion."  As  another  said 
of  himself,  so  might  he  have  said:  "I  have  but 
one  passion.  It  is  He."  The  love  of  Christ  con- 
strained him.  The  constraint  of  the  Cross  was 
ever  the  "one  clear  call"  for  him,  compelling  him 
to  labor  while  the  light  lasted. 

When  all  else  is  said  of  a  great  and  good 
man,  this  remains  to  be  uttered:  "The  greatest 
of  these  is  love."  "These" — the  intellectual  en- 
dowments, the  moral  virtures,  the  acts  of  life,  the 
services  and  the  sacrifices,  the  gifts  of  grace,  of 

which  the  Apostle  has  written  in  the  classic  chap- 

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ter  on  "the  more  excellent  way."  "The  greatest 
of  these  is  love."  Rising  superior  to  gifted 
speech,  to  prophecy,  to  philanthropy,  to  self-sac- 
rifice, taking  rank  above  its  own  eternal  associ- 
ates, "faith  and  hope,"  love  wears  the  crown  of 
empire  in  the  esteem  of  men  and  in  holy  judg- 
ment of  God.  "Love  is  and  was  my  King  and 
Lord." 

"Intellect  is  not  the  whole  man.  The  feelings 
give  wings  to  the  intellect  and  permit  it  to  soar 
into  the  lofty  regions  of  truth,  when,  without 
right  feeling,  the  intellect  would  grovel  on  the 
earth  and  miss  the  meaning  of  the  universe." 
The  great  hearts,  in  leading  pilgrims  in  their 
progress  toward  the  Celestial  City,  are  greater 
than  the  great  heads.  "Love  divine,  all  loves 
excelling,"  is  God's  greatest  gift  to  any  man. 

As  already  intimated,  Christmas  day  will  bring 
back  to  us,  year  by  year,  with  its  blessed  mes- 
sages of  joy  and  peace  and  good  will  from  God 
who  "so  loved  the  world  that  He  gave  his  only 
begotten  Son,"  the  memory  of  him  whom  we 
have  "loved  and  lost  a  while."  On  that  blessed 
morn,  he  left  us  for  the  Home  on  High,  and 
received  the  gift  of  eternal  life  from  the  Heav- 
enly Father.  That  day  was  known  in  the  early 
church  as  "the  Day  of  the  Triumphant  Sun." 
Let  it  never  be,  in  association  with  his  memory, 
other  than  a  day  of  brightness  and  of  victory. 


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Brother,  thou  art  gone  before  us, 

And  thy  saintly  soul  is  flown 
Where  tears  are  wiped  from  every  eye 

And  sorrow  is  unknown. 
From  the  burdens  of  the  flesh, 

And  from  care  and  sin  released, 
Where  the  wicked  cease  from  troubling. 

And  the  weary  are  at  rest. 

And  when  the  Lord  shall  summon  us 

Whom  thou  hast  left  behind, 
May  we,  untainted  by  the  world, 

As  sure  a  welcome  find. 
May  each,  like  thee,  depart  in  peace. 

To  be  a  glorious  guest, 
Where  the  wicked  cease  from  troubling, 

And  the  weary  are  at  rest. 


"THE  IVORY  PALACES,"       Barraclough 

Mr.  Alm:rt  Brown,  Mr.  George  W.  Cooke 

The  words  and  music  of  this  hymn  were  suggested 
by  a  sermon  on  "The  Ivory  Palace"  by  Dr.  Chapman. 

My  Lord  has  garments  so  wondrous  fine. 

And  myrrh  their  texture  fills; 
Its  fragrance  reach'd  to  this  heart  of  mine, 

With  joy  my  being  thrills. 


Chorus  : 


Out  of  the  ivory  palaces 
Into  a  world  of  woe, 

Only  His  great  eternal  love 
Made  my  Saviour  go. 

His  life  had  also  its  sorrow  sore. 

For  aloes  had  a  part; 
And  when  I  think  of  the  cross  He  bore. 

My  eyes  with  tear-drops  start. 


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His  garments  too  were  in  cassia  dipped, 

With  healing  in  a  touch ; 
Each  time  my  feet  in  some  sin  have  sh'pp'd, 

He  took  me  from  its  clutch. 

In  garments  glorious  He  will  come, 

To  open  wide  the  door; 
And  I  shall  enter  my  heavenly  home, 

To  dwell  for  evermore. 


The  Rev.  Edgar  Whitaker  Work^  D.D.: 

While  we  would  gladly  linger  here,  if  we 
could,  continuing  our  tribute  in  the  praise  of  God, 
we  must  hasten  a  little,  however  unwillingly,  in 
preparation  for  the  afternoon  service  which  will 
be  held  in  the  Fifth  Avenue  Presbyterian  Church 
promptly  at  two  o'clock. 

As  this  service  here  has  been  held  in  praise  of 
God  and  in  recognition  of  Dr.  Chapman's  per- 
sonal and  pastoral  service,  the  other  service  in  the 
Fifth  Avenue  Church  will  be  held  in  God's 
praise  and  in  recognition  of  Dr.  Chapman's  pub- 
lic service.  You  are  invited  to  that  service  at 
two  o'clock. 

There  will  be  ample  time  after  the  service  for 
3"0u  to  view  the  face  of  our  beloved  friend.  You 
are  requested  to  come  forward  by  the  center  aisle 
and  by  the  north  aisle,  and  to  retire  by  the  south 
aisle.  After  the  benediction,  I  shall  request  you 
all  to  remain  standing  while  the  honorary  pall- 
bearers and  the  family  withdraw. 

There  is  a  hymn  of  the  church,  which  is  always 
sung  in  the  Presbytery  of  New  York  upon  the 
departure  of  one  of  its  members.  It  will  be  sung 
doubtless  at  the  memorial  service  of  the  Presby- 

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tery  to  be  held  on  the  13th  day  of  January.  Let 
us  anticipate  the  singing  of  that  hymn  by  sing- 
ing it  here.    Let  me  invite  you  all  to  join. 

HYMN  NO.  781. 

1  For  all  the  saints  who  from  their  labors  rest, 
Who  Thee  by  faith  before  the  world  confessed, 
Thy  name,  O  Jesus,  be  forever  blest.     Alleluia! 

2  Thou  wast  their  Rock,  their  Fortress,  and  their  Might ; 
Thou,  Lord,  their  Captain  in  the  well-fought  fight; 
Thou,   in   the   darkness   drear,   their   one   true  Light. 

Alleluia ! 

3  O  may  Thy  soldiers,  faithful,  true,  and  bold, 
Fight  as  the  saints  who  nobly  fought  of  old, 

And    win    with    them    the    victor's    crown    of    gold. 
Alleluia ! 

4  O  blest  commiunion,  fellowship  Divine! 
We  feebly  struggle,  they  in  glory  shine; 

Yet  all  are  one  in  Thee,  for  all  are  Thine.     Alleluia! 

5  And  when  the  strife  is  fierce,  the  warfare  long, 
Steals  on  the  ear  the  distant  triumph-song. 

And   hearts   are   brave   again    and    arms   are   strong. 
Alleluia ! 

6  The  golden  evening  brightens  in  the  west ; 
Soon,  soon  to  faithful  warriors  comes  their  rest; 
Sweet  is  the  calm  of  Paradise  the  blest.     Alleluia ! 

7  But  lo!  there  breaks  a  yet  more  glorious  day; 
The  saints  triumphant  rise  in  bright  array ; 

The  King  of  Glory  passes  on  His  way.     Alleluia. 

8  From  earth's  wide  bounds,  from  ocean's  farthest  coast, 
Through  gates  of  pearl  streams  in  the  countless  host. 
Singing  to  Father,  Son,  and  Holy  Ghost.     Alleluia! 


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PRAYER  AND  BENEDICTION       - 

The  Rev.  Edgar  Whitakee  Work,  D.  D.  : 

O  Lord,  our  Heavenly  Father,  let  Thy 
glory  remain  with  us.  Let  it  touch  every  occu- 
pant of  this  pulpit  in  all  time  to  come.  Help 
Thy  servants  to  proclaim  the  living,  loving,  sav- 
ing gospel  of  our  Lord.  Let  Thy  glory,  we  be- 
seech Thee,  rest  upon  every  minister  of  the  Lord 
Jesus  Christ  in  the  coming  days  and  upon  Thy 
Church  and  upon  every  heart  that  turns  to  Thee. 
And  though  Thy  servant  be  dead,  yet  may  he 
speak  unto  multitudes  in  all  parts  of  the  earthi 
until  his  appearing.  And  now,  may  the  God  of 
Peace,  that  brought  again  from  the  dead  our 
Lord  Jesus,  that  great  Shepherd  of  the  Sheep, 
through  the  blood  of  the  everlasting  covenant, 
make  you  perfect  to  do  His  will,  working  in  you 
that  which  is  well  pleasing  in  His  sight,  through 
Jesus  Christ,  our  Lord.    Amen. 


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at  tilt 
at  tmo  o'rbrk 


INVOCATION 

The  Reverend  Andrew  Magill. 

Pastor  First  Presbyterian  Church,  Jamaica. 

READING  OF   THE   SCRIPTURE 

The  Reverend  William  Hiram  Foulkes, 
D.D.,  General  Secretary  of  the  New  Era 
Movement. 

"Comfort  ye,  comfort  ye  my  people,  saith  your 
God. 

Speak  ye  comfortably  to  Jerusalem,  and  cry 
unto  her,  that  her  warfare  is  accomplished,  that 
her  iniquity  is  pardoned ;  for  she  hath  received  of 
the  Lord's  hands  double  for  all  her  sins. 

The  voice  of  Him  that  crieth  in  the  wilderness, 
prepare  ye  the  waj^  of  the  Lord,  make  straight 
in  the  desert  a  highway  for  our  God. 

Every  valley  shall  be  exalted,  and  every  moun- 
tain and  hill  shall  be  made  low;  and  the  crooked 
shall  be  made  straight,  and  the  rough  places 
plain; 

And  the  glory  of  the  Lord  shall  be  revealed, 
and  all  flesh  shall  see  it  together;  for  the  mouth 
of  the  Lord  hath  spoken  it. 

The  Voice  said,  cr}^;  and  he  said.  What  shall 
I  cry?  All  flesh  is  grass,  and  all  the  goodliness 
thereof  is  as  the  flower  of  the  field ; 

The  grass  withereth;  the  flower  fadeth;  be- 
cause the  Spirit  of  the  Lord  bloweth  upon  it; 
surely  the  people  is  grass. 

The  grass  withereth ;  the  flower  fadeth ;  but  the 
Word  of  our  God  shall  stand  forever. 

O  Zion,  that  bringeth  good  tidings,  get  thee  up 
into  the  high  mountain;  O  Jerusalem,  that  bring- 
est  good  tidings,  lift  up  thy  voice  with  strength ; 

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lift  it  up,  be  not  afraid;  say  unto  the  cities  of 
Judah,  Behold  your  God! 

Behold,  the  Lord  God  will  come  with  strong 
hand,  and  His  arm  shall  rule  for  Him;  behold. 
His  reward  is  with  Him,  and  His  work  before 
Him. 

He  shall  feed  His  flock  like  a  shepherd;  He 
shall  gather  the  lambs  with  His  arm,  and  carry 
them  in  His  bosom,  and  shall  gently  lead  those 
that  are  with  young. 

Why  sayest  thou,  O  Jacob,  and  speakest,  O 
Israel,  my  way  is  hid  from  the  Lord,  and  my 
judgment  is  passed  over  from  God? 

Hast  thou  not  known,  hast  thou  not  heard, 
that  the  everlasting  God,  the  Lord,  the  Creator 
of  the  ends  of  the  earth,  fainteth  not,  neither  is 
weary?  There  is  no  searching  of  his  understand- 
ing. He  giveth  power  to  the  faint ;  and  to  them 
that  have  no  might,  he  increaseth  strength. 

Even  the  youths  shall  faint  and  be  weary,  and 
the  young  men  shall  utterly  fall. 

But  they  that  wait  upon  the  Lord  shall  renew 
their  strength ;  they  shall  mount  up  with  wdngs  as 
eagles;  they  shall  run,  and  not  be  weary;  and 
they  shall  walk,  and  not  faint. 

And  he  showed  me  a  pure  river  of  water  of 
life,  clear  as  crystal,  proceeding  out  of  the  throne 
of  God  and  of  the  Lamb. 

In  the  midst  of  the  street  of  it,  and  on  either 
side  of  the  river,  was  there  the  tree  of  life,  which 
bare  twelve  manner  of  fruits,  and  yielded  her 
fruit  every  month ;  and  the  leaves  of  the  tree  were 
for  the  healing  of  the  nations. 

And  there  shall  be  no  more  curse;  but  the 
throne  of  God  and  of  the  Lamb  shall  be  in  it; 
and  His  servants  shall  serve  Him. 

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And  they  shall  see  His  face;  and  His  name 
shall  be  in  their  foreheads. 

And  there  shall  be  no  night  there;  and  they 
need  no  candle,  neither  light  of  the  sun;  for  the 
Lord  God  giveth  them  light;  and  they  shall 
reign  for  ever  and  ever. 

I,  Jesus,  have  sent  mine  angel  to  testify  unto 
you  these  things  in  the  churches,  I  am  the  root 
and  the  offspring  of  David,  and  the  bright  and 
morning  star. 

And  the  Spirit  and  the  bride  say,  Come.  And 
let  him  that  heareth  say.  Come.  And  let  him 
that  is  athirst  come.  And  whosoever  will,  let 
him  take  the  water  of  life  freely. 

He  which  testifieth  these  things  saith.  Surely 
I  come  quickly;  Even  so,  come,  Lord  Jesus. 

The  grace  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  be  with 
you  all.    Amen." 


PRAYER        

The  Reverend  Haelan  G.  Mendex- 
HALL,  D.D.,  Moderator  of  New  York  Pres- 
bytery. 

Let  us  unite  in  prayer. 

Almighty  God,  our  Heavenly  Father,  in  this 
hour  of  bereavement  and  distress  we  betake  our- 
selves to  Thee.  We  come  to  Thee  as  Thy  chil- 
dren. We  are  here  with  heavy  hearts.  Oh,  lis- 
ten to  our  cries.  Thou  hast  taken  from  us  the 
desire  of  our  eyes  with  a  stroke.  Thy  ways  to  us 
are  full  of  mystery,  and  we  cannot  understand 
them,  but  we  believe  that  Thy  heart  of  love  will 
sympathize  with  us  in  all  kindness.  Justice  and 
judgment  are  the  habitation  of  Thy  throne,  and 
mercy  and  truth  go  before  Thy  face. 

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Teach  us,  O  Lord,  to  acquiesce  in  Thy  right- 
eous dealings.  Help  us  from  true  hearts  to  say, 
"The  Lord  gave  and  the  Lord  hath  taken  away. 
Blessed  be  the  name  of  the  Lord."  Teach  us 
heartfelt  submission  and  holy  resignation.  Teach 
us  in  patience,  dear  Father,  to  bear  our  burdens. 

O,  Holy  Spirit,  do  Thou  move  upon  our  spir- 
its that  are  cast  down.  Draw  us  to  Thyself  to 
comfort  us,  bringing  to  us  the  promises  of  Thy 
word.  Dwell  within  us,  giving  us  to  feel  their 
soothing  influence,  their  consoling  power,  and 
their  sustaining  grace. 

Bring  us  closer  than  we  have  been  to  our  Lord 
Jesus.  And  may  we  realize  that  there  is  no  con- 
demnation to  them  that  are  in  Him;  that  Christ 
Himself  has  taken  away  the  sting  of  death,  and 
we  have  been  begotten  unto  a  lively  hope  by  His 
resurrection  from  the  dead  to  an  inheritance  that 
is  incorruptible  and  undefiled  and  that  fadeth 
not  away. 

We  thank  Thee,  our  Father,  for  the  glorious 
life  of  Thy  servant  as  it  was  lived  in  the  quiet 
parish,  in  the  city  church  and  the  great  taber- 
nacle. We  thank  Thee  for  his  great  heart,  his 
endorsed  mind,  his  eloquent  tongue.  We  thank 
Thee  for  his  passion  for  souls,  which,  day  and 
night  and  in  all  the  years  of  his  ministry,  was  the 
consuming  power  of  his  life;  for  the  books  he 
wrote ;  for  the  songs  he  sang ;  for  the  warm  hand- 
clasp that  lifted  many  a  life  into  the  presence  of 
the  King. 

Like  his  Master,  he  had  compassion  on  the 
multitudes.  Through  him,  the  poor  had  the  gos- 
pel preached  to  them,  and  the  common  people 
heard  him  gladly. 

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We  bless  Thee  for  his  obedience  to  the  faith  of 
Thy  gospel,  for  the  virtues  which  adorned  him, 
for  the  work  of  Thy  spirit  upon  his  heart  and 
conscience,  for  his  simple  and  entire  dependence 
upon  a  crucified  Christ;  for  the  radiance  of  his 
faith  in  triumphant  anticipation  of  the  immortal 
day. 

Though  lover  and  friend,  husband  and  father. 
Thou  hast  put  far  from  his  beloved  ones,  yet 
wouldst  Thou  enable  them  to  sing  of  mercy.  May 
they  feel  that  the  same  hand  that  lays  us  low, 
holds  us  up.  Let  Thy  gentle  hands  wipe  the  tears 
from  their  eyes,  and  underneath  them,  let  there 
be  Thine  everlasting  arms. 

Remember  in  all  tenderness  the  dear  boy  who 
has  followed  the  flag  across  the  sea,  and  be  with 
him  in  this  hour  of  sorrow  and  of  loneliness  and 
of  grief.  We  thank  Thee  for  the  passion  for  the 
flag  which  father  and  son  together  had,  and  that 
out  from  these  precious  lives  there  has  gone  in- 
spiration to  other  hearts  and  other  homes,  to  the 
church  of  Jesus  Christ  and  the  world  itself.  Give 
us  all  grace  to  follow  the  example  of  Thy  ser- 
vant, that  we  too  may  become  more  than  conquer- 
ors, through  our  Lord  who  loves  us. 

Cheer  us  all  by  the  hope  that  separation  is  not 
forever;  that  the  grave  which  will  soon  have  the 
body  of  one  whom  we  love  so  tenderly  can  not 
hold  the  soul  which  rests  in  Thee.  May  we  be 
comforted  by  the  thought  that  such  as  fall  asleep 
in  Jesus  die  only  to  live,  and  live  to  die  no  more; 
that  this  corruptible  must  put  on  incorruption, 
and  this  mortal  must  put  on  immortality,  and 
that  the  lansom  of  the  Lord  shall  return  to  Zion 
and  there  they  shall  be  forever  with  the  Lord. 

We  ask  it  in  the  Name  of  that  Jesus  whom  he 
loved  and  whom  he  served.    Amen. 

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"SHADOWS"        -        -        -        -      Harhness 
Mr.  Albert  Brown 

When  we  cross  the  valley  there  need  be  no  shadows, 
When  life's  day  is  ended  and  its  sorrows  o'er; 

When  the  summons  comes  to  meet  the  blessed  Saviour, 
When  we  rise  to  dwell  with  him  for  evermore. 

Chorus  : 

Shadows!  no  need  of  shadows 

When  at  last  we  lay  life's  burden  down ; 
Shadows!  no  need  of  shadows 

When  at  last  we  gain  the  victor's  crown! 

When  our  loved  ones  leave  us  there  need  be  no  shadows. 
If  their  faith  is  fixed  in  Jesus  as  their  Lord; 

For  they  go  to  be  with  Him  who  died  to  save  them, 
To  be  with  the  One  whom  they  have  long  adored. 

When  He  comes  to  meet  us  there  need  be  no  shadows. 
When  He  comes  in  all  His  glorious  array; 

When  the  trump  of  God  shall  sound  and  loved  ones 
waken, 
When  He  leads  us  onward  with  triumphant  sway. 

The  Rev.  Edgar  Whitaker  Work^  D.D.: 

The  memorial  services  of  this  holy  Sabbath 
day  are  held  to  the  praise  and  honor  of  our  God, 
and  for  the  exaltation  of  the  Name  of  Jesus,  our 
Lord,  and  in  recognition  of  the  work  which  God 
was  able  to  accomplish  through  His  beloved  ser- 
vant, by  the  power  of  the  Holy  Spirit. 

Dr.  Chapman's  relations  to  the  work  of  the 
Kingdom  of  God  were  varied,  and  many.  The 
consuming  passion  of  his  life  was  to  preach  the 
gospel,  and  for  him  the  Scriptural  Word  which 
best  expressed  the  spirit  of  his  ministry  was  the 
word:  "Evangelism."  It  is  appropriate  that  his 
relationship  to  Evangelism  should  be  presented 
to  us  by  one  long  time  his  friend  and  often  his 
associate  in  evangelistic  work,  the  Reverend  Dr. 
Arthur  J.  Smith. 

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ADDRESS 

The  Reverend  Arthur  J.  Smith,  D.D., 
General  Secretary  of  the  Evangelistic  Com- 
mittee of  New  York  City. 

Twenty-eight  years  ago  next  month,  I  first 
met  Wilbur  Chapman.  It  was  in  the  interim  be- 
tween his  pastorates  in  Albany  and  Philadelphia. 
He  had  taken  several  weeks  for  rest  between 
the  two  pastorates,  but  most  of  this  time  he  spent 
in  conducting  evangelistic  meetings.  Those  who 
knew  him  best  knew  that  he  rested  while  winning 
men  to  Christ. 

The  village  of  Catskill  on  the  Hudson  was  the 
place  of  our  first  meeting.  I  went  there  to  as- 
sist him  with  union  evangelistic  meetings  which 
were  conducted  only  six  days  and  resulted  in 
365  accessions  to  the  churches. 

We  went  from  Catskill  to  Schuylerville,  the 
scene  of  his  first  pastorate  after  leaving  the  semi- 
nary. From  Schuylerville  we  went  to  Jersey 
City,  where  he  was  associated  with  the  late  B. 
Fay  Mills  in  a  union  evangelistic  campaign. 
Then  he  went  to  Philadephia,  was  installed  pas- 
tor of  Bethany  Presbyterian  Church,  to  which 
church  I  went  as  his  lay-assistant  soon  after. 

It  has  been  my  rare  privilege  to  be  associated 
with  him  not  only  in  the  pastorate,  but  for  many 
years  in  evangelistic  work.  I  have  seen  the  de- 
velopment of  his  life  work  from  union  meetings 
in  small  towns  to  campaigns  in  great  cities.  I 
was  with  him  when  he  introduced  the  simultane- 
ous evangelistic  campaign  plan,  where  not  only 
one  evangelist,  but  many  would  go  to  a  city,  as  in 
Boston,    when    thirty-five    evangelists,    together 

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with  their  associates  worked  for  many  weeks, 
and  thousands  were  won  for  Christ  and  the 
Church. 

It  was  not  my  privilege  to  go  with  him  on  his 
world  tours,  but  those  who  did  go  saw  wonderful 
things.  Twice  in  Australia,  once  in  New  Zea- 
land and  Tasmania;  then  through  the  Philip- 
pines, through  China,  Korea,  Japan,  then  across 
Canada,  to  Great  Britain,  where  he  held  some  of 
the  greatest  meetings  of  his  life.  An  unusual 
tribute  was  paid  to  him  in  Edinburgh.  He  was 
asked  to  conduct  an  evangelistic  service  in  St. 
Giles  Cathedral. 

A  little  girl,  when  she  heard  Phillips  Brooks 
had  died,  said:  "How  glad  the  angels  will  be." 
I  could  not  help  but  think  of  this  when  I  heard 
of  Wilbur  Chapman's  passing  over.  The  angels 
indeed  would  be  glad  to  see  a  man  who  had  won 
so  many  souls  for  Christ. 

When  we  were  in  Schuylerville,  he  told  me 
where  he  received  his  first  inspiration  to  do  evan- 
gelistic work.  He  said  Moody  was  in  Albany 
and  he  went  down  to  hear  him,  spending  the 
week  there.  When  he  returned  to  Schuylerville 
he  suggested  to  the  officers  of  his  church  that 
they  have  special  meetings,  to  which  they  read- 
ily assented.  Then,  at  the  first  meeting,  he  told 
the  people  he  was  not  going  to  prepare  new  ser- 
mons every  night,  but  was  simply  going  to  tell 
them  what  Moody  said  in  Albany.  He  told  me 
after  two  or  three  days  there  was  an  unusual 
interest  in  his  congregations,  and  he  soon  found 
himself  in  the  midst  of  a  revival.  As  the  meet- 
ings progressed,  he  said  he  knew  he  had  found 
his  life  work. 

There  were  three  things  that  made  him  great 
as  an  evangelist: 

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1.  He  had  one  purpose  in  life,  and  that  was 
to  win  men  to  Christ.  Like  Paul,  he  said,  "This 
one  thing  I  do."  He  had  often  been  invited  to 
lecture  but  had  refused.  He  had  often  been  in- 
vited to  teach  but  declined,  saying  he  did  not 
know  how.  He  was  not  a  lecturer  nor  a  teacher, 
but  he  was  preeminently  an  Evangel  of  the  cross. 
He  told  me  that  he  hesitated  to  speak  at  the  re- 
cent Prophetic  Conference,  but  finally  consented 
to  do  so  only  on  condition  that  they  permit  him 
to  preach  an  evangelistic  sermon,  and  give  the 
invitation,  and  that  was  what  he  did.  Those  of 
us  who  were  present  will  remember  that  he 
preached  with  unusual  power,  and  that  scores 
responded  to  his  invitation  at  the  close  of  the 
sermon. 

2.  Another  thing  that  made  him  great  was  the 
fact  that  he  was  a  man  of  prayer.  He  said  to 
me  on  one  occasion,  when  things  were  going 
hard,  "If  there  is  one  man  in  the  world  who  must 
be  a  man  of  prayer,  it  is  the  evangelist."  I  am 
not  sure  that  he  spent  hours  upon  his  knees.  I 
think  he  prayed  as  much  upon  his  feet  as  he 
did  upon  his  knees.  In  fact,  I  have  known 
him  to  hesitate  in  his  sermons,  and  at  first 
wondered  why.  Then  I  learned  that  he  stopped 
to  pray.  His  life  was  a  life  of  prayer.  He 
heeded  the  injunction  of  the  Apostle  Paul 
to  "pray  without  ceasing." 

3.  The  third  thing  that  made  him  great  was 
his  passion  for  Christ,  for  the  w^ork  of  God  and 
lost  men.  He  loved  his  Lord.  Christ  was  pre- 
eminent in  his  life.  He  loved  the  truth  of  God 
and  studied  it  diligently,  and  he  loved  the  souls 
of  men.  ^During  his  first  pastorate  in  Philadel- 
phia, the  only  criticism  I  heard  came  from  a  man 

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who  was  not  a  member  of  his  church.  "Your 
minister  was  seen  on  South  Street  last  night," 
said  this  man,  "with  a  drunkard  on  his  arm." 
"Yes,"  I  replied,  "and  I  am  glad  that  he  was,  and 
glad  he  was  seen  trying  to  help  an  unfortunate 
man." 

Men  seemed  to  realize  that  he  loved  them,  and 
seemed  eager  to  follow  his  leadership.  He 
gathered  a  little  group  of  about  fifteen  men  for 
prayer  on  Sunday  mornings  before  church,  and 
organized  them  into  a  brotherhood.  The  number 
increased  until  the  average  attendance  was  about 
five  hundred. 

At  the  close  of  one  of  his  meetings  in  Indiana- 
polis, a  woman  who  had  accepted  Christ  said  to 
one  of  the  workers,  "I  couldn't  see  the  preacher's 
face  because  a  pillar  was  in  front  of  me.  I  did 
not  hear  much  that  he  said  because  of  the 
noise  back  of  me."  When  asked  what  it  was  that 
led  her  to  make  the  decision,  she  replied,  "It  was 
the  tone  of  his  voice." 

I  well  remember  sitting  by  his  side  in  a  ser- 
vice in  Philadelphia  with  our  heads  bowed  in  si- 
lent prayer.  It  was  just  before  he  was  to  speak. 
I  heard  a  slight  sound  upon  the  carpet  and  open- 
ing my  eyes,  to  my  surprise  I  saw  tears  falling 
from  his  eyes  almost  in  a  stream.  There  were  no 
tears  in  his  eyes  when  he  arose  to  preach,  but 
there  was  a  passion  in  his  voice  that  vibrated  and 
won  the  souls  of  men. 

I  am  glad  to  have  known  Wilbur  Chapman. 
I  owe  to  him  more  than  I  owe  to  any  other  man. 


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The  Rev.  Edgar  Whitaker  Work,  D.D.: 

Whatsoever  form  of  Christian  work  was 
aggressive,  scriptural  and  spiritual,  was  certain  to 
appeal  to  Dr.  Chapman;  and  for  this  reason  his 
heart  went  out  especially  to  the  noble  work  of  the 
Salvation  Army.  Grateful  recognition  of  his 
work  for  the  Army  will  be  paid  by  an  officer  of 
the  Army,  Col.  Samuel  Brengle. 

ADDRESS      

Colonel  Samuel  Brengle,  D.D.,  of  the 
Salvation  Army. 

I  count  it  a  privilege,  filled  with  sadness,  and 
an  honor  crowned  with  sorrow,  to  have  been  ap- 
pointed by  our  Commander  to  represent  her  and 
the  members  of  the  Salvation  Army  at  this  hour. 

Dr.  Chapman  was  our  friend — one  of  the 
stanchest,  truest  friends  God  ever  gave  to  the 
Salvation  Army.  And  this  friendship  was  in  no 
sense  superficial.  It  grew  out  of  profound  spir- 
itual relationships  and  affinities. 

Under  Mr.  Moody's  preaching  and  teaching. 
Dr.  Chapman  got  a  sense  of  the  possibilities  of 
one  filled  with  the  Holy  Spirit,  and  he  dedicated 
himself  to  Christ  anew. 

In  his  young  manhood  and  early  ministry,  he 
read  that  remarkable  book,  the  biographj'  of 
Catherine  Booth,  "The  Mother  of  the  Salvation 
Army,"  and  his  heart  was  touched  by  the  spirit 
of  the  sacrifice  and  devotion,  and  the  spiritual  in- 
sight and  deep  religious  experience  of  that  very 
wonderful  woman.  He  never  ceased  to  declare, 
in  private  and  in  public,  the  debt  he  owed  to  her, 
and  to  General  William  Booth,  the  founder  of 
the  Salvation  Army.  General  Booth  was  one  of 
the  guiding  stars,  he  often  said,  in  his  spiritual 
sky. 

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He  shoAved  his  friendship  for  us  in  many 
ways,  sometimes  in  militant  ways.  On  one  occa- 
sion, in  Australasia,  the  committee  that  arranged 
his  meetings  ignored  the  Salvation  Army,  and 
had  not  invited  it  to  take  part  in  anj^  of  the  ser- 
vices that  he  was  to  conduct.  He  noticed  this, 
met  a  Salvationist,  and  asked  why  none  of  them 
were  present,  taking  part,  as  it  was  always  his 
pleasure  they  should.  He  was  told  that  they  had 
received  no  invitation  to  be  present  or  take  part 
in  the  services.  At  the  next  meeting,  he  had 
two  or  three  of  the  leading  Salvation  Army 
officers  by  his  side  on  the  platform;  and  at  the 
close  of  the  service  turned  to  the  coinmittee  and 
said  he  desired  that,  from  this  time  on,  the 
Salvationists  should  be  represented  in  all  of  his 
meetings.  He  did  not  hesitate  to  show  his  friend- 
ship in  this  militant  fashion. 

But  his  friendship  was  also  shown  in  kindly 
and  generous  ways.  One  of  our  officers,  with  a 
large  famil}^  of  eager,  earnest  boys  and  birls 
growing  up  into  young  manhood  and  woman- 
hood, wished  to  give  some  of  them  a  higher  edu- 
cation. But  he  did  not  see  how  he  could  quite 
meet  the  expense.  Finally,  bethinking  himself 
of  Doctor  Chapman,  he  went  to  him  and  told  of 
his  desire,  and  asked  if  he  could  offer  any  sug- 
gestion. "Leave  it  to  me,"  replied  the  Doctor. 
Our  brother  left  it  to  him;  and  now  one  of  those 
boys  is  a  graduate  of  Yale,  and  the  daughter,  a 
graduate  of  Mount  Holyoke. 

Again,  he  often  showed  the  fineness  of  his 
character,  and  the  grace  of  his  friendship  in  ten- 
der little  ways.  During  the  recent  Prophetic 
Conference  at  Carnegie  INIusic  Hall,  with  heavy 
responsibilities  and  burdens  pressing  upon  him, 

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with  his  face  drawn  and  pinched  with  the  agoniz- 
ing pain  of  the  unhealed  wound  that  finally  sent 
him  to  the  surgeon's  table  and  into  the  presence 
of  his  Lord,  standing  bareheaded  at  the  entrance 
to  Carnegie  Hall,  he  saw  a  Salvation  Army 
officer  who  had  come  quite  a  distance  with  his 
rather  frail  wife,  striving  in  vain  to  get  through 
the  vast  crowd.  The  Doctor,  bareheaded,  for- 
getting his  pain,  pressed  his  way  down  through 
the  crowd,  took  hold  of  the  Salvationist,  and  led 
him  and  his  little  wife  into  one  of  the  best  seats 
in  the  great  hall. 

He  was  a  great  and  an  honored  man,  honored 
of  the  church,  and  of  the  nation,  and  was  known 
round  the  world.  But  like  his  JNIaster,  he  hum- 
bled himself;  he  stooped  to  the  lowly  and  conde- 
scended to  men  of  low  estate,  and  made  himself 
an  usher  for  the  Salvationists  in  the  house  of  the 
Lord.  For  these  things  we  loved  him.  How 
could  we  do  otherwise  than  love  him?  But  we 
loved  him  not  for  these  things  alone;  he  was  al- 
ways showing  us  respect  and  honor.  He  fre- 
quently called  our  Commander  and  our  leading 
officers  to  conduct  services  with  him  in  his  cam- 
paigns. On  several  occasions,  he  gave  a  whole 
day  just  to  the  Salvation  Army;  invited  us  to 
come  wdth  di-ums,  and  trumpets,  and  flags,  to 
shout  our  Hallelujahs,  and  to  give  our  testimony. 
He  seemed  to  delight  in  the  simplicity  and  aban- 
don and  zeal  of  Salvationists,  and  again  and 
again  he  manifested  his  kindly  interest,  his  ten- 
der friendship  and  his  affinity  for  us  in  the  most 
public  manner.  But  we  loved  him  also  for  him- 
self, not  simply  for  what  he  did  for  us,  but  for  his 
own  sterling  worth  and  superb  Christian  man- 
hood. 

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We  saw  how  he  stood  full-breasted  to  every 
wind  that  blew  ag'ainst  the  great  fundamental 
doctrine  of  our  holy  faith.  He  stood  four-square 
against  every  attack  and  assault  made  upon  these 
great  truths,  which  rightly  preached,  in  the 
power  of  the  Spirit,  lead  to  the  regeneration  and 
sanctification  of  men,  and  that  appealed  to  the 
heart  of  every  Salvationist.  He  went  direct  for 
souls,  which  we  of  the  Salvation  Army  are  ever 
doing,  and  I  think  it  was  that  common  passion 
for  the  souls  of  men  which  drew  him  to  the  Sal- 
vation Army  in  such  unfailing  friendship  and 
regard. 

We  loved  him  because  of  the  mslj  he  exalted 
Jesus  Christ.  Jesus  the  Christ  of  God  was  first 
and  last  with  him,  the  Alpha  and  Omega  of  his 
preaching  and  teaching.  He  exalted  Him  as 
Lord,  and  revelled  in  preaching  the  atonement 
that  is  in  His  blood. 

We  loved  him  for  the  way  he  honored  and  rev- 
erenced and  submitted  himself  to  the  Holy  Spirit. 

In  one  of  our  officers'  meetings  in  Australasia, 
he  delivered  an  address  to  the  officers  on  "The 
Love  of  the  Spirit,"  taken  from  that  text  in 
Paul's  letter  to  the  Romans:  "I  beseech  you. 
Brethren,  for  the  Lord,  Jesus  Christ's  sake,  and 
for  the  love  of  the  Spirit." 

That  was  one  of  the  greatest  and  most  touch- 
ing addresses  I  ever  read.  It  was  published  in 
many  of  our  magazines  and  papers,  and  possibly 
a  million  copies  of  it  were  scattered  around  the 
world. 

We  loved  him  for  the  way  he  exalted  the  Bible. 
He  boldly  preached  its  truths  and  did  not  whittle 
it  down.  He  proclaimed  it  all  as  the  word  of  the 
Lord.     We  loved  him  for  the  way  he  declared 

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the  whole  counsel  of  God.  He  preached  the 
goodness  of  God,  and  with  what  melting  power 
he  did  this!  He  did  not  hesitate,  however,  to 
preach  the  severity  of  God.  I  heard  him  once,  in 
the  great  Auditorium  in  Los  Angeles,  California, 
preaching  on  David's  sin.  I  remember  the  way 
he  began  his  address.  He  said:  "I  used  to  think 
that  such  sermons  as  I  shall  now  preach  should 
be  addressed  to  men  only,  but  now  I  preach  with- 
out distinction  of  sex." 

How  he  stirred  the  hearts  of  men!  He  made 
a  direct  center  assault  upon  sin  in  its  stronghold, 
in  the  human  heart,  in  the  affections,  and  in  the 
will.  What  a  master  he  was  in  the  divine  art 
of  preaching  to  win  men.  He  displayed  not  him- 
self, but  preached  Christ  Crucified  for  our  sins. 
He  carried  the  judgments  of  men  by  scholarly 
argument;  he  aroused  the  seared  or  slumbering 
conscience  by  the  certainty  of  coming  judgment: 
he  quickened  the  memory  by  deft  appeal  till  sins 
that  were  forgotten  as  though  long  dead  were 
suddenly  seen  "alive  with  a  terrible  might";  he 
stirred  the  emotions  by  apt  story  and  telling  il- 
lustrations, until  hardened  men  were  molten  un- 
der his  touch.  He  was  a  master  of  pathos  and 
persuasion.  His  command  of  the  language  of 
persuasion  seemed  perfect  and  complete.  He 
touched  all  the  strings  of  the  human  heart!  He 
played  all  the  chords  of  the  great  harp  God  put 
into  his  hands;  struck  all  its  keys  with  skill  and 
might,  until  it  poured  forth  orchestral  harmonies. 

He  made  men  feel  the  exceeding  sinfulness  of 
sin,  the  meanness  and  contemptibleness  of  sin. 
We  loved  him  for  this,  for  we  too  are  dealing 
daily  with  sinners.  We  see  how  it  destroys,  we 
behold  its  terrible  waste  and  ravages  in  the  souls 

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of  men.  And  when  we  saw  a  man  like  Dr.  Chap- 
man, with  his  fine  and  consecrated  ability,  his 
culture  and  his  refinement,  preaching  so  directly 
and  searchingly  to  men,  our  hearts  ran  out  to  him 
in  heavenly  affection. 

We  reverenced  him  as  an  honored  leader  of  the 
hosts  of  God.  We  loved  him  as  a  brother.  We 
esteemed  him  as  a  friend. 

Personally,  I  feel  lonelier  now  that  he  has  gone. 
The  world  seems  bereft  to  me.  I  did  not  have  a 
very  intimate  acquaintance  with  him,  but  he  was 
very  kind  to  me,  and  once  invited  me  to  go  with 
him  on  his  Australasian  campaign,  as  represen- 
tative of  the  Salvation  Army.  But  while  my 
acquaintance  with  him  was  but  limited,  I  felt 
lonely  and  bereft  when  I  heard  that  Dr.  Chap- 
man was  dead.  But  how  much  more  must  you 
miss  him  who  were  his  intimate  friends,  and  you 
who  lived  in  the  love  of  his  great  heart. 

But  he  is  not  dead.  Do  not  think  so  of  him. 
Such  a  man  cannot  die.  It  is  unthinkable.  He 
was  possessed  of  eternal  life.  Bless  God,  he  is 
not  dead. 

"God's  finger  touched  him,  and  he  slept. 

The  great  Intelligences  fair 

That  range  above  our  mortal  state, 
In  circle  round  the  blessed  gate, 

Received  and  gave  him  welcome  there; 

And  led  him  through  the  blissful  climes." 

And  he  lives,  bless  God,  he  lives.  Our 
friend  and  brother  lives  in  God. 

"That  God,  which  ever  lives  and  loves, 
One  God,  one  Lord,  one  element, 
And  one  far-off  Divine  event 
To  which  the  whole  creation  moves." 

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And  to  which  we  too  are  hastening,  and  where 
we  shall  find  him  and  be  found  of  him,  if  we  are 
one  with  him  in  his  love  and  devotion  to  the 
Saviour. 

On  behalf  of  our  Commander  and  of  my  Com- 
rades, I  extend  to  Mrs.  Chapman  and  the  sons 
and  daughters  the  tenderest  sympathy  of  every 
Salvationist's  heart,  and  the  assurance  of  our  con- 
stant and  earnest  prayers. 


The  Rev.  Edgar  Whitaker  Work^  D.D.: 

I  wish  it  were  possible,  to  pause  for  a  moment 
in  the  very  midst  of  this  service  and  enjoy,  if  we 
can,  a  mental  picture  of  the  many  communities 
and  churches  throughout  this  land  and  other 
lands  where  Dr.  Chapman  has  preached  the 
gospel. 

In  many  churches  in  this  country  today,  God 
is  being  praised  for  His  servant,  and  for  the 
work  that  he  did.  In  some  of  them,  in  fact, 
memorial  services  are  being  held  like  these  that 
are  held  here  today.  That  is  true,  for  instance,  in 
far-ofP  San  Diego  on  the  Pacific  Coast. 

We  have  heard  by  letter  and  by  telegram  from 
many  places  and  from  many  individuals,  minis- 
ters and  others,  who  today  are  sunmioning  the 
people  to  remember  God's  goodness  through  His 
servant.  Your  hearts  would  burn  within  you 
could  I  read  to  you  here  the  great  number  of  let- 
ters and  telegrams  that  have  come  from  individ- 
uals, societies,  and  organizations,  from  many  di- 
rections. East,  West,  North  and  South.  Let  me 
only  take  the  time  to  read  three  or  four  letters 
and  telegrams. 

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The  first  is  a  letter,  very  beautiful  and  very 
tender,  from  the  Vice-President  of  the  United 
States,  the  Honorable  Thomas  R.  ^larshall, 
addressed  to  Dr.  John  F.  Carson,  of  Brook- 
lyn, from  the  Vice-President's  Chamber,  and 
reading  as  follows: 

"Dear  Doctor: 

"If  duty  ever  called  me  to  pay  my  personal 
respects  at  the  funeral  services  of  a  great  and 
good  man,  it  surely  calls  me  to  come  to  Dr.  Chap- 
man's funeral.  And  yet  I  cannot  come,  because 
my  duty  is  to  the  living  at  home  who  need  me. 

"I  do  not  seek  to  explain  the  passing  of  this 
personal  friend,  this  illustrious  Presbyterian,  this 
great  Christian,  and  this  high-minded  patriot. 
Had  the  war  never  come  on,  still  Dr.  Chapman 
would  have  lived  in  the  hearts  of  those  who  loved 
him,  but  its  coming  brought  immortality  to  him 
in  the  life  of  the  nation. 

"Early  he  saw  that  the  fight  was  between  Beth- 
lehem and  Berlin,  and  then  he  wielded  the  flam- 
ing sword  of  righteousness  with  such  valor  as  to 
put  behind  him  and  back  of  his  country  the  great 
denomination  he  so  worthily  honored  and  which 
had  so  signally  honored  him. 

"In  Church  and  State  he  measured  up  to 
model  citizenship.  Till  we  meet  again,  rest  to  his 
ashes  and  peace  to  his  soul! 

"Regardfully, 

"Thomas  R.  Marshall." 


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The  following  telegram  has  been  receivedi 
from  the  Reverend  J.  Frank  Smith  of  Dallas, 
Texas,  Moderator  of  the  General  Assembly,  who 
succeeded  Dr.  Chapman  in  that  office : 

"Your  loss  I  count  my  loss  and  the  Church's 
loss,  the  world's  loss.  Dr.  Chapman  was  under- 
stood and  loved  by  the  multitudes  who  heard  him 
gladly.  It  will  be  difficult  to  fill  his  place  in  the 
evangelistic  world.    God  bless  you  all." 

Another  telegi'am  has  been  received  from  the 
evangelist,  the  Reverend  William  A.  Sunday, 
who  ascribes  the  influences  of  his  own  great  min- 
istry to  the  helpful  teaching  of  Dr.  Chapman: 

"Words  fail  to  express  my  sorrow.  I  am 
grieved  that  I  cannot  be  present.  The  Doctor 
was  my  truest  friend.  Next  to  the  members  of 
my  own  family,  I  loved  him  more  than  anyone 
else.  He  started  me  in  my  life's  work  and 
encouraged  me  when  the  battle  was  hard.  His 
love  was  like  a  mother's  love.  I  wish  I  could 
have  seen  the  welcome  the  angels  gave  him  when 
he  burst  through  the  gates  into  the  city.  The 
memory  of  all  this  will  be  an  inspiration  until 
my  time  comes  to  drift  out  with  the  tide.  God 
comfort  you  all." 

And  still  another  telegram,  let  me  take  the 
time  to  read,  from  Peter  Billhorn,  the  Evangel- 
istic Singer: 

"Dr.  Chapman  was  one  of  my  dearest  friends. 
We  were  associated  together  during  his  first  five 
years  in  evangelistic  work.  Our  labors  were 
fraught  with  the  sweetest  Christian  harmony  and 
fellowship.  Many  of  my  best  compositions  w^ere 
inspired  by  his  heart  of  love  for  the  lost  and 
erring.  His  face  has  been  before  me  during  the 
last  few  days.    How  I  wish  it  were  possible  for 

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me  to  be  present  and  sing  his  favorite  song, 
'Sweet  Peace,  the  Gift  of  God's  Love,'  which 
peace  I  am  sure  his  soul  is  enjoying  in  the  pres- 
ence of  his  Master  and  Lord." 

Notwithstanding  Dr.  Chapman's  varied  rela- 
tionships to  the  work  of  the  Kingdom  at  large, 
in  many  aspects,  he  was  ever  and  unfailingly  a 
member  and  a  minister  of  his  own  Church.  His 
Church  honored  him  throughout  his  long  minis- 
try as  a  pastor  and  as  an  evangelist,  and  he  loved 
it  until  the  end.  Grateful  appreciation  of  his  re- 
lation to  our  Church  will  be  paid  by  the  Stated 
Clerk  of  the  General  Assembly,  the  Reverend 
Dr.  William  Henry  Roberts. 


ADDRESS        -        - 

The  Reverend  William  Henry  Roberts, 
D.  D.,  Stated  Clerk  of  the  General  Assem- 
bly. 

Christian  friends,  I  draw  attention  to  the  fact 
that  the  presiding  officer  this  afternoon  is  Vice- 
Moderator  of  the  General  Assembly,  and  it  is 
therefore  with  his  full  sympathy  and  in  his  pres- 
ence that,  occupying  the  official  position  which  T 
do,  by  the  privilege  of  our  brethren,  I  speak  on 
Dr.  Chapman  in  relation  to  the  Church. 

The  Presbyterian  Church,  and  with  it,  many 
other  Christian  churches  in  the  United  States 
and  throughout  the  world,  thank  God  for  the 
life  and  labors  of  J.  Wilbur  Chapman.  Believ- 
ing, as  they  do,  that  Christ  calls  men  into  the 
ministry,  they  are  deeply  grateful  to  the  great 
Head  of  the  Church  for  the  call  that  He  gave  to 
this  beloved  servant  and  fellow-minister.  That 
call  was  accompanied,  as  we  know,  by  the  influ- 

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enccs  of  the  Holy  Spirit,  and  by  the  results  as 
shown  in  the  ministry  so  marvelously  conducted 
throughout  many  years  and  in  many  lands.  Not 
only  here,  but  throughout  the  world,  there  are 
Christians  who  can  say  with  a  peculiar  gratitude, 
as  they  think  upon  a  life  full  of  devoted  service, 
"The  Lord  gave  and  the  Lord  hath  taken  away. 
Blessed  be  the  name  of  the  Lord." 

Dr.  Chapman  served  as  pastor  in  five  congre- 
gations— Liberty,  Ind. ;  Schuylerville,  New 
York;  First  Reformed,  Albany,  New  York; 
Bethany  Presbj'-terian,  Philadelphia;  and  the 
Fourth  Presbyterian,  New  York  City.  All  his 
ministry  was  blessed  by  the  addition  of  many  to 
the  membership  of  the  churches,  and  by  the  up- 
building of  the  converts  in  Christian  character. 
Dr.  Chapman  believed,  as  do  all  effective  minis- 
ters, in  both  conversion  and  education,  in  winning 
men  and  women  for  Christ,  and  also  in  their  up- 
building for  Christian  service.  As  a  pastor  he 
excelled,  and  his  powder  in  the  pulpit  grew  with 
the  years,  placing  him  in  the  front  rank  of 
preachers. 

The  greatest  work  accomplished  by  Dr.  Chap- 
man for  the  Presbyterian  Church  and  for  Christ- 
ian churches  generally  w^as  in  evangelism.  Next 
to  D wight  L,  MoodA^  whose  disciple  he  was.  Dr. 
Chapman  was  the  most  influential  and  most  use- 
ful of  all  the  evangelists  who  have  been  engaged 
in  world  work. 

After  serving  from  1903  to  1910  in  evangel- 
istic work  for  the  Presb3i:erian  Church  and  many 
other  churches  in  the  United  States,  he  entered 
upon  work  in  other  countries.  His  labors  in  Aus- 
tralia and  New  Zealand  were  accompanied  by 
extraordinary  manifestations,  not  only  in  the 
conversion  of  souls,  but  in  the  cooperation  of  the 

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Protestant  churches  of  those  countries,  without 
exception,  in  the  work  of  Christ.  He  succeeded, 
also,  in  bringing"  into  united  service,  for  the  sal- 
vation of  souls,  the  Protestant  churches  of  Great 
Britain,  and  especially  in  Scotland,  as  I  person- 
ally know,  for  I  was  with  him  on  two  occasions. 
The  results  accomplished  were  notable  and  per- 
manent. So  deep  was  the  impression  made  by 
him  upon  the  British  churches  that  engagements 
were  recently  proffered  him  which,  had  God 
willed,  would  have  been  filled  during  the  years 
1919  and  1920. 

As  we  think  upon  Dr.  Chapman's  evangelistic 
work,  certain  particulars  are  worthy  of  note.  The 
first  is  this,  that  he  had  the  practical  support  of 
Mr.  John  H.  Converse  of  Philadelphia,  one  of 
the  distinguished  Elders  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  in  that  city,  who  stood  resolutely  with 
Dr.  Chapman  under  any  and  all  circumstances. 

One  result  of  the  work  of  Dr.  Chapman,  and 
it  is  worthy  of  emphatic  notice,  was  the  creation 
of  a  spiritual  atmosphere  which  brought  into  the 
service  of  Christ  and  humanity  a  group  of  evan- 
gelists, headed  by  Dr.  Chapman  himself,  and 
comprising  among  others  William  A.  Sunday, 
Wm.  E.  Biederwolf  and  George  G.  Mahy.  This 
evangelistic  work  resulted  effectively  through- 
out the  world  in  another  direction,  which  is  prom- 
inent, as  affecting  the  relationships  of  Christian 
churches,  and  making  certain  that  wherever  the 
English  languag'e  is  spoken,  evangelistic  work 
will  have  its  rightful  place  as  the  chief  instru- 
ment in  the  hands  of  the  Holy  Spirit  for  the  sal- 
vation of  a  sin-cursed  world. 

For  years  Dr.  Chapman,  and  others  associated 
with  him,  labored  to  impress  the  Christian  world 
with  the  fact  that  regeneration  was  the  first  need 

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of  human  beings,  and  that,  while  education  was 
all-important,  the  primary  thing  as  to  education, 
under  the  blessing  of  God,  was  to  deal  in  men 
and  women  with  a  regenerated  human  nature 
capable  of  development  into  an  effective  Christ- 
ian life.  This  truth  is  emphasized  in  a  notable 
manner  bj'-  the  great  World  War  through  which 
all  nations  are  now  passing.  As  we  think  upon 
reconstruction,  we  need  to  dwell  continuously 
and  efficiently  upon  Christ's  words,  "Ye  must  be 
bom  again." 

It  gives  me  great  pleasure,  having  been  inti- 
mately associated  with  Dr.  Chapman  for  twenty- 
five  years,  to  testify  publicly  to  his  high  Christ- 
ian character.  I  likewise  bear  witness  to  the 
growing  sweetness  of  his  spirit  and  temper.  As 
he  grew  in  years,  he  grew  more  like  our  beloved 
Master.  He  was  always  possessed  of  mental 
equipoise.  He  was  ever  a  valuable  counselor 
and  executive,  and  above  all,  he  had  great  vision, 
always  having  in  mind  in  his  work,  in  his  prayers, 
not  one  church,  not  one  nation,  but  all  bearing 
the  name  of  Christ,  and  likewise  that  world  for 
which  our  Lord  and  Saviour  died,  and  which  He 
lives  to  redeem. 

In  reading  "Pilgrim's  Progress,"  one  notable 
character  always  stands  out  in  a  marked  way. 
And  as  we  think  upon  our  friend,  the  name  that 
he  deserves  is  that  of  Bunyan's  Greatheart.  His 
was  a  hope  and  courage  and  a  love  which  endured 
and  dared  all  things. 

This  remarkable  combination  of  qualities  made 
Dr.  Chapman  a  notable  Moderator  of  the  Gen- 
eral Assembly.  Elected  at  Dallas,  Texas,  in 
1917,  to  the  highest  honor  in  the  gift  of  the  Pres- 
byterian Church,  he  added  new  luster  to  a  life  of 

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distinguished  service  by  visiting  every  portion  of 
our  country  and  instilling  into  both  ministers  and 
members  his  own  Biblical  faith,  calm  reliance 
upon  God,  and  dauntless  Christian  courage.  The 
need  was  great.  The  ideals  for  which  the  Ameri- 
can Presbyterian  Church  and  the  American 
Nation  stand  were  imperilled.  The  need  of  the 
hour  was  for  a-  clear- thinking  and  spirit-filled 
leader,  a  great  and  patriotic  Moderator ;  and  un- 
der Christ's  guidance,  Dr.  Chapman  was  equal  to 
the  situation.  He  was  thanked  personally  by 
the  President  of  the  United  States  in  the  White 
House  for  the  service  he  rendered,  and  the  Gen- 
eral Assembly  at  Columbus,  Ohio,  entered  upon 
its  record  its  appreciation  of  Dr.  Chapman's 
faithful  and  remarkable  service,  and  its  gratitude 
to  God  for  His  blessing  upon  it. 

It  is  to  be  emphasized  that  our  "Greatheart" 
was  busily  engaged  in  the  work  of  the  Church  of 
Christ  at  the  time  of  his  departure  from  this 
earthly  life.  He  was  unanimously  chosen  as  the 
Vice- Chairman  of  the  New  Era  Movement,  and 
was  entrusted  with  its  spiritual  side,  having  rela- 
tion not  only  to  the  work  of  Evangelism,  but  also 
to  the  subjects  of  family  religion,  missions  and 
spiritual  inspiration.  He  realized  fully  the 
Church's  need  for  effort  in  just  such  lines,  in  view 
of  the  great  exigencies  of  the  present  day. 

Dr.  Chapman  was  also  a  member  of  the  Com- 
mittee on  Church  Cooperation  and  Union,  which 
for  fifteen  years  has  conducted  the  Assembly's 
work  in  bringing  the  churches  in  the  United 
States  into  cooperation,  one  with  another  and, 
where  practicable,  into  organic  union.  Our 
friend,  filled  as  he  was  with  that  high  catholicity 
which  characterizes  the  Presbyterian  Church,  was 

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the  Chairman  of  the  Sub-committee  of  this  Gen- 
eral Committee  on  Union  for  work  with  the  other 
Presbyterian  and  Reformed  Churches,  and  had 
made  considerable  prog-ress  in  this  most  excellent 
line  of  endeavor,  when  God  called  him  higher. 

He  also  had  greatly  upon  mind  and  heart  the 
w^ork  of  reconstruction,  which  must  be  carried  for- 
ward on  a  world-wide  scale  by  both  churches  and 
nations  for  many  years  to  come:  "We  are  at  the 
beginning  of  a  new  world  order,"  as  Dr.  Chap- 
man said  to  me  in  conversation  had  within  a 
month.  "The  Church  needs  to  be  up  to  date. 
This  is  the  great  need  of  the  Church.  We  should 
realize  that  God  never  goes  backward;  that  the 
future  is  always  His,  and  the  question  is  ever. 
Are  the  men  who  believe  in  God  up  to  Him  and 
in  line  with  His  providence?" 

As  we  think  upon  future  Christian  duty  as 
related  to  Christian  progress,  it  is  inspiring, 
friends,  to  remember  that  the  life  of  him  whom 
we  today  commemorate  is  not  ended.  We  need 
again  and  again  to  emphasize  the  Saviour's  dec- 
laration that  God  is  the  God  of  the  living!  We 
are  the  dying!  Our  friend  is  with  the  living  to- 
day. He  is  forever  separated  from  the  world  of 
the  dying.  Face  to  face  is  he  with  the  Lord 
whom  he  served,  and  he  has  heard  the  rewarding 
words,  "Well  done,  good  and  faithful  servant. 
Thou  hast  been  faithful  in  a  few  things.  I  will 
make  thee  ruler  over  many  things.  Enter  thou 
into  the  joy  of  thy  Lord." 

With  the  vision  of  faith,  we  can  see  our  de- 
parted friend  glorified  with  Christ,  and  crowned 
with  the  everlasting  crown  of  righteousness.  This 
vision  broke  upon  his  heart  and  mind  on  Christ- 

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mas  morning.  The  day  star  has  risen  with  his 
heart,  and  he  is  forever  with  Christ.  May  that 
day  star  with  its  inspiration  illumine  always  our 
hearts  and  lives. 


'MY  JESUS  I  LOVE  THEE"      -     Gord(m 
Mr.  Albert  Brown^  Mr.  George  W.  Cooke. 

My  Jesus  I  love  Thee,  I  know  Thou  art  mine, 
For  thee  all  follies  of  sin  I  resign; 
My  gracious  Redeemer,  my  Saviour  art  Thou; 
If  ever  I  loved  Thee,  my  Jesus,  'tis  now. 

I  love  Thee,  because  Thou  hast  first  loved  me. 
And  purchased  my  pardon  on  Calvary's  tree; 
I  love  Thee  for  wearing  the  thorns  on  Thy  brow ; 
If  ever  I  loved  Thee,  my  Jesus,  'tis  now. 

In  mansions  of  glory  and  endless  delight, 
I'll  ever  adore  Thee  in  heaven  so  bright; 
I'll  sing  with  the  glittering  crown  on  my  brow. 
If  ever  I  loved  Thee,  my  Jesus,  'tis  now. 


The  Rev.  Edgar  Whitaker  Work^  D.D.  : 

Back  of  the  minister  in  his  public  activities, 
back  of  the  pastor  and  back  of  the  evangelist, 
there  was  always  Dr.  Chapman,  the  man  and  the 
friend.  There  are  many  of  us  here,  and  in  many 
other  places,  who  can  never  forget  the  sympa- 
thetic tone  of  his  voice  in  personal  intercourse, 
the  warm  grasp  of  his  hand  in  friendliness,  the 
encouraging  touch  of  his  hand  upon  the  shoulder. 
One  has  something  to  say  who  is  well  calculated 
to  lay  the  wreath  of  friendship  upon  his  form, 
the  Reverend  Dr.  John  F.  Carson  of  Brooklyn. 

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AiDDRESS 

The  Reverend  John  F.  Carson^  D.D., 
Pastor  of  the  Central  Presbyterian  Churchy 
Brooklyn. 

"My  Jesus,  I  love  Thee,  I  know  Thou  art 
mine."  That,  I  think,  was  Dr.  Chapman's 
favorite  hymn.  Thousands  upon  thousands  of 
times  did  Dr.  Chapman  start  that  hjnim  at 
evangelistic  meetings  and  in  the  conferences  that 
he  held  with  ministers.  But  that  it  was  his 
favorite  hymn  is  not  all.  It  was  the  expression 
of  the  passion  of  his  life. 

Looking  back  to  the  many  years  of  a  some- 
what close  fellowship,  many  things  stand  out 
and  challenge  my  attention  at  this  time ;  but  high 
above  them  all  was  the  impression  that  he  made 
upon  me  of  his  love  of  Jesus  Christ.  Jesus 
Christ  was  the  center  and  the  soul  of  the  spirit  of 
J.  Wilbur  Chapman.  His  love  for  Jesus  Christ 
gave  guidance  to  his  thinking,  gave  definiteness 
and  energy  to  his  ministry,  gave  color  and  dis- 
tinction to  his  whole  life. 

As  a  man,  he  loved  men,  and  he  liked  to  be 
loved.  He  was  appreciative  of  others,  and  he 
liked  others  to  appreciate  him.  He  was  generous 
with  his  means.  We  have  heard  of  one  case 
where  a  lad  and  lassie  were  enabled  to  pursue  the 
course  of  higher  education.  It  would  take  the 
rest   of  the  afternoon  to  name  other  cases. 

There  are  men  preaching  the  gospel  in  this 
land  and  other  lands  today,  there  are  women  tell- 
ing the  story  of  Christ  in  foreign  fields  today, 
who  would  not  be  at  their  tasks  if  it  had  not  been 
for  the  generous  spirit  of  J.  Wilbur  Chapman; 
and  he  was  generous  with  his  time  as  with  his 
service. 

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Dr.  Chapman  seemed  never  to  know  what  fa- 
tigue meant,  preaching  twice  a  Sunday,  aye, 
seven  or  eight  times  a  day,  in  his  great  evangel- 
istic campaigns,  and  not  only  preaching  but, 
while  thus  engaged,  holding  conferences  innu- 
merable about  his  work,  giving  himself,  holding 
nothing  of  the  price  back,  that  the  Christ  he  loved 
might  be  glorified. 

As  I  think  of  these  last  two  years,  I  think  of 
the  spirit  of  endurance  and  sublime  heroism 
which  this  man  of  God  displayed,  going  all 
through  this  land,  preaching  the  message  of 
Christ  to  the  nation  in  the  time  of  the  nation's 
peril,  with  an  unhealed  wound  and  with  a  pain 
endured  about  which  he  seldom  spoke.  But  some 
who  knew  the  agony  through  which  he  passed  at 
times,  looked  upon  him,  not  with  admiration 
alone,  but  with  amazement,  at  the  stoicism,  the 
endurance  of  the  man.  And  why  was  it  ?  It  was 
not  in  human  strength.  No  human  being  could 
have  thus  endured  in  his  own  strength,  but  it  was 
Jesus  Christ  in  him. 

Oh,  how  he  loved  to  repeat  that  name  Jesus. 
You  have  heard  him  repeat  it  o'er  and  o'er  again, 
and  with  such  a  sweetness,  such  an  accent  that 
somehow  the  Christ  came  very  close  to  us  every 
time  he  spoke  that  precious  name. 

But  I  think  that  in  nothing  was  the  spirit  of 
Christ  more  manifest  in  the  life  of  Dr.  Chapman 
than  in  a  thing  which  has  been  mentioned  this  af- 
ternoon in  relation  to  one  organization,  but  which 
was  manifest  all  through  the  life  of  Dr.  Chap- 
man— his  compassion  upon  them  that  were  out 
of  the  way.  That  was  one  of  the  signal  things 
about  Jesus.  He  had  compassion  upon  them 
that  were  out  of  the  way.  And  so  did  this  great 
follower  of  Jesus.     He  had  compassion  upon 

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them  that  were  out  of  the  way,  and  he  went  out 
of  his  way  to  minister  unto  them. 

There  is  this  thing  that  I  feel  that  I  must  say : 
He  found  men  in  unlooked-for  places.  I  am 
looking  into  the  faces  this  afternoon  of  some  men 
in  the  ministry  who  are  preaching  today  or  lead- 
ing in  great  causes  today  because  Dr.  Chapman 
found  them,  found  them  in  some  place  of  labor. 
They  heard  his  call;  they  were  touched  b}^  his 
magnetism,  and  they  went  out  into  the  ministry. 
There  are  hundreds  of  ministers  in  this  land  and 
in  all  lands  preaching  today  who  would  never 
have  been  preaching  had  not  J.  Wilbur  Chap- 
man found  them ;  and  there  are  many  other  min- 
isters who  are  today  preaching  with  greater  power 
and  larger  resourcefulness  because  he  touched 
their  lives. 

Yes,  he  had  a  passion  for  souls,  but  he  had  also 
a  passion  for  soul-winners.  And  when  you  mag- 
nify his  evangelistic  missions  and  talk  of  the 
great  meetings  in  which  he  preached  Christ,  you 
must  also  place  side  by  side  with  them  the  confer- 
ences for  ministers  that  he  conducted  all  through 
this  land  and  o'er  the  world.  And,  in  those  con- 
ferences, ministers  of  Jesus  Christ  were  born 
anew  to  a  higher  ideal,  to  a  finer  consecration,  to 
a  more  devoted  ministry.  All  over  the  land, 
there  are  men  today  who  would  testify  to  his  in- 
fluence upon  their  ministry. 

When  I  was  a  young  man,  minister  of  a  small 
church  of  less  than  one  hundred  people,  in  the 
Borough  of  Brooklyn,  J.  Wilbur  Chapman  was 
preaching  at  East  New  York  in  one  of  the 
smaller  evangelistic  services  that  he  conducted 
many  years  ago.  I  had  known  him  before.  I 
had  been  with  him.  But  I  sat  at  that  meeting 
and  I  heard  his  message,  and  I  saw  something 

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that  he  had  that  I  had  not.  I  saw  some  larger 
possibilities.  And  waiting  after  that  meeting, 
I  talked  with  him  awhile.  Until  four  o'clock  in 
the  morning  he  sat  with  me  and  he  talked  and 
pointed  out  the  way  to  a  richer,  larger,  fuller 
Christian  experience  than  I  had  ever  had  before. 

Oh,  my  beloved,  I  owe  so  much  unto  thee,  so 
much!  And  oh,  ministers  o'er  all  the  land  owe 
it  to  him.  And  why?  Because  of  his  one  pas- 
sion for  Jesus.  It  w^as  the  absorbing  theme  of 
his  preaching. 

The  last  sermon  that  he  preached  in  Brooklyn, 
just  three  weeks  ago,  was  from  that  word  in  Phil- 
ippians,  "That  I  might  know  Him;  that  I  might 
know  Him."  And  this  was  his  line,  "That  I 
might  know  Him  as  God;  that  I  might  know 
Him  as  the  Saviour;  that  I  might  know  Him 
as  King."  And  he  preached  as  I  have  sel- 
dom heard  Wilbur  Chapman  preach,  that 
Sabbath  morning.  And  when  he  had  con- 
cluded, and  the  prayer  was  offered,  he  stood  up, 
and  he  said,  "It  may  be  that  in  this  audience  to- 
day there  are  those  who  want  to  give  themselves 
to  this  Christ."  And  he  made  his  fervent  plea 
and  said,  "Speak  to  the  pastor."  Five  men,  all 
of  them  past  fifty  years  of  age,  and  two  women, 
decided  that  morning  in  Central  Church  to  ac- 
cept Christ  and  enter  the  membership  of  his 
Church;  and  we  shall  have  the  privilege  of  re- 
ceiving them  within  three  Sundays  into  the  mem- 
bership.   That  was  Chapman. 

In  preaching  of  Christ  for  the  salvation  of 
men,  he  had  a  deep,  fixed,  intelligent,  personal 
conviction  that  the  gospel  was  true,  and  that  it 
was  the  power  of  God  unto  salvation.  There 
was  a  ring  of  sincerity,  an  undertone  of  personal 

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conviction,  a  note  of  confidence,  in  all  his  preach- 
ing. He  preached  a  faith  that  he  had  proved 
in  the  secret  places  of  his  own  soul,  and  hence 
his  preaching  was  profoundly  spiritual  and  per- 
sonal. To  him  the  gospel  was  a  well  of  life  un- 
touched by  di'ought  or  frost,  refreshing  to  his 
own  spirit,  and  quenching  the  thirst  of  others. 
He  preached  it  with  a  power  that  had  back  of  it 
intellectual  integrity,  high  conviction,  moral  fear- 
lessness; he  preached  it  with  a  marvelously  sim- 
ple, forceful,  sinewy  speech. 

And  one  word  more.  Dr.  Chapman  worked 
not  alone.  He  had  the  inspired  genius  of  asso- 
ciating with  himself,  and  of  associating  himself 
with,  men  in  whom  he  had  confidence,  that 
unitedly  they  might  move  forward  to  the  glory 
of  the  Saviour. 

This  service  today  that  signalizes  his  ministry 
would  be  incomplete  w^ithout  one  word  of  appre- 
ciation of  the  fellowship  of  Charles  M.  Alexan- 
der with  J.  Wilbur  Chapman.  The  preacher  of 
the  gospel  and  the  singer  of  the  gospel  heralded 
the  Christ  through  all  the  world.  Dr.  Chapman 
had  confidence  in  him,  and  he  had  confidence  in 
and  love  for  Dr.  Chapman. 

Oh,  how  I  would  like  this  afternoon  to  say  a 
word  about  his  friendship.  But  I  cannot  trust 
myself  to  do  it.    Few  men  loved  as  he  loved. 

Beloved  brother,  farewell,  farewell  and  hail! 
'Tis  night  here.  'Tis  morning  with  thee.  Bye 
and  bye  we  shall  clasp  thy  hand  and  look  into 
thy  face,  when  the  shadows  flee  away,  and  then 
knowing,  as  we  all  know,  we  shall  praise  God 
for  a  life  so  filled  with  the  Spirit  of  Christ,  that 
in  its  fullness  and  faithfulness  was  a  continuous 
service  to  the  glory  of  Jesus  Christ. 

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As  we  close  this  service,  I  am  thinking  sym- 
patlietically  of  those  of  you  in  the  congregation 
who  must  feel  a  sense  of  generous  envy  toward 
these  brethren  in  the  pulpit  who  have  been  per- 
mitted to  speak  their  tribute  of  love  and  affec- 
tion. I  am  thinking  of  how  many  of  you  this 
afternoon,  would  wish  to  speak  of  some  memory 
that  is  in  your  hearts,  of  some  sermon  which  you 
will  cherish  always,  or  of  some  incident  of  per- 
sonal intercourse  and  friendship. 

I  claim  a  single  moment,  at  the  conclusion  of 
the  service,  to  refer  to  a  sermon  I  heard  him 
preach  in  Winona.  It  was  in  the  evening  time, 
out  under  the  trees,  in  the  tenderness  of  those 
closing  moments  of  the  day  which  many  of  us  re- 
member; and  his  text  was  that  text  which  is 
spoken  twice,  I  think,  in  the  Old  Testament, 
once  in  an  historical  book  and  once  again  in  the 
Psalms:  "Thy  gentleness  hath  made  me  great." 
And  I  think  that,  unwittingly,  Dr.  Chapman 
revealed  in  that  text,  without  any  thought  of  per- 
sonal reference,  of  course, — unwittingly  he  re- 
vealed the  secret  of  the  power  of  his  ministry 
in  the  Church  and  Kingdom  of  God.  It  was  the 
gentleness  of  Jesus  Christ  that  had  gotten  into 
his  heart,  and  that  spoke  in  the  sweetness  and  joy 
of  his  ministry.  And  I  should  like,  last  of  all, 
at  the  conclusion  of  this  memorial  service,  to  lay 
this  text  upon  his  bier,  "Thy  gentleness  hath 
made  me  gi-eat." 

And  though  we  cannot  have  the  time  here  to 
look  again  upon  his  beloved  face,  you  will  gather 
in  imagination  about  this  casket  that  contains 
the  last  remains,  and  you  will  lay  the  memory 
of  your  text,  or  of  your  sermon,  or  of  the  per- 
sonal touch  that  you  cherish,  and  all  to  the  praise 
and  honor  of  God. 

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The  Rev.  Edgar  Whitaker  Work,  D.  D.: 

Thus  close  these  memorial  services,  and  I  trust 
that  their  simplicity,  their  earnestness,  their  spir- 
ituality have  been  in  some  sense,  however  small, 
worthy  of  the  beauty  and  strength  and  the  abid- 
ing character  of  this  glorious  ministry  through 
Jesus  Christ,  our  Lord. 

After  the  benediction,  the  congregation  is  re- 
quested to  remain  standing  as  the  family  with- 
draws. The  ministers  and  pallbearers  and 
friends  will  retire  by  the  door  to  my  right,  and 
they  will  be  followed  by  the  friends  for  whom 
carriages  are  reserved,  or  who  have  private  ve- 
hicles. They  will  follow  the  family  through  the 
vestibule  in  the  rear  of  the  rostrum. 

We  shall  be  led  once  more  to  the  throne  of 
Christ,  in  concluding  the  services,  by  the  Rev- 
erend Dr.  David  G.  Wylie. 

PRAYER  AND  BENEDICTION 

The  Reverend  David  G.  Wylie^  D.D., 
Secretary  of  the  Board  of  Church  Erection. 

Our  Father,  God,  amidst  the  gathering  dark- 
ness, we  come  to  Thee.  How  sweet,  how  sacred, 
is  the  quiet  of  the  sanctuary  on  this  Sabbath  eve- 
ning. Our  hearts  are  filled  with  gratitude  and 
thanksgiving  for  the  gift  of  Thy  dear  Son,  for 
the  presence  of  Thy  spirit,  for  Thy  holy  church 
with  its  Divine  ministries. 

We  desire  to  thank  Thee,  our  God,  for  the 
character,  the  achievements,  of  Thy  servant,  and 
for  the  large  number  of  immortal  souls  that  he 
won  for  Christ.  And  we  rejoice  to  know,  great 
God,  and  to  thank  Thee  for  the  victory  that  Thou 
hast  given  him,   when   on    Christmas   morning 

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Thou  didst  welcome  him  to  the  Holy  City  into 
the  ivory  palaces  of  the  King. 

Great  God,  let  Thy  benediction  rest  upon  his 
family,  sanctify  this  sorrow  to  them,  be  with 
them  when  they  shall  carry  the  body  of  their 
loved  one  to  its  last  resting-place  and  deposit  it 
in  the  tomb,  earth  to  earth,  ashes  to  ashes,  dust 
to  dust. 

Make  us  faithful,  great  God,  we  beseech  Thee, 
until  the  end  of  the  journey;  and  then  may  we 
enter  upon  that  life  that  never  ends.  The  grace 
of  the  Lord,  Jesus  Christ,  the  love  of  God,  and 
the  fellowship  of  the  Holy  Spirit  abide  with  you, 
now  and  forever.    Amen. 

HONORARY  PALLBEARERS 

Honorable  Thomas  R.  Marshall,  Washing- 
ton, D.  C,  Vice-President  of  the  United 
States 

Col.  D.  S.  Alexander,  Buffalo 

James  E.  Bennet^  New  York 

William  S.  Bennet,  New  York 

Orville  p.  Blake,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Honorable  M.  Linn  Bruce,  New  York 

Judge  John  A.  Clement,  Philadelphia 

Henry  P.  Crowell,  Chicago 

Ralph  L.  Cutter,  New  York 

Richard  H.  Gillespie,  Stamford,  Conn. 

W.  A.  Harbison,  Pittsburgh 

Roy  M.  Hart,  New  York 

Charles  L.  Huston,  Coatesville,  Pa. 

Samuel  F.  Irwin,  Philadelphia 

Alba  B.  Johnson,  Philadelphia 

Robert  Johnston,  St.  Louis 

John  T.  Manson,  New  Haven 

A.  R.  NicoL,  New  York 

Herbert  K.  Twitchell,  New  York 

Honorable  John  Wanamaker,  Philadelphia 

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